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

[victor steinbok]

Not going as far back but a whole volume on folk etymology:
https://books.google.com/books?id=YX5BAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22folk+etymology%22&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&source=gb_mobile_search&ovdme=1&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiRy5Wc2-CDAxWHEVkFHSZiAvwQuwV6BAgNEAc#v=onepage&q=%22folk%20etymology%22&f=false
Folk-etymology. A Dictionary of Verbal Corruption of Words Perverted in
Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy
By Rev. A. Smythe Palmer
London: George Bell & Sons, 1882

On Mon, Jan 15, 2024, 16:54 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. 675/1 (ProQuest)  According to a similr
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>  of "folk-etymology" many names of places have been wrongly referred to
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> Fred Shapiro
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