[Ads-l] Antedating of "Folk-Etymology"

[Laurence Horn]

Nice, Fred.  Out of curiosity, which I assume isn’t solely mine, could you supply enough of the context to clarify the examples the author had in mind here?  I seem to recall that “folk(-)etymology” is a calque from the German, but it would still be interesting to know the earliest cited examples of the phenomenon in an English-language context.

LH

> On Sep 7, 2020, at 8:21 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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> folk-etymology (OED 1883)
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> 1874 _ Saturday Review_ 21 Nov. 675 (ProQuest)  According to a similar kind of "folk-etymology" many names of places have been wrongly referred to alien sources.
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> Fred Shapiro
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