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

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
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folk-etymology (OED 1883)

1874 _Saturday Review_ 21 Nov. 675/1 (ProQuest)  According to a similr kind of "folk-etymology" many names of places have been wrongly referred to alien sources.

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