Folk-etymology
Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 700 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : Ardent Media |
Total Pages | : 692 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Anastasia Castillo |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2010-09-15 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 3640705173 |
Seminar paper from the year 2007 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 3,0, University of Münster (Englisches Seminar), language: English, abstract: The English language belongs to the Indo-European group of languages. Modern English is regarded as the global lingua franca. The language is widely spoken all over the world and we encounter it in business, science, technology, advertising, travel, and some other domains. However, how could the language originally spoken by a few thousand Anglo-Saxons establish such dominance? The language evolved over centuries and how much the language has change since then is all too clear. Some of the words in present day English date back to Old English, while others come from many of the Indo-European languages. The arrival of other cultures to England had a significant impact on English linguistic history. The influence of Scandinavian, Latin and Romance languages can be clearly seen at all linguistic levels in English language. Historical linguistics is the study of language change. One of its main concerns is the study of the history of words. The discipline that analyses the origin, formation, and development of the word is defined as etymology. It is also a combination of word analysis and the study of literary text across language and time. However, it would not have developed into such an interesting discipline without the linguistic phenomenon of folk etymology. A foreign word that was hard to pronounce would be changed into something that sounded more familiar. Sometimes the change was made unconsciously due to mishearing or misunderstanding. This process frequently occurs when one language borrows a word from another. Since the Norman Conquest the English language was constantly adopting words due to external cultural influences. It is not entirely clear how many words entered English from other languages. But the meaning of some of them has also certainly changed. According to D. Crystal “most of the words in the language have changed their meaning over the past thousand years, their original meanings forgotten”.
Author | : A. Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : CreateSpace |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 2015-08-03 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781515335504 |
A dictionary of verbal corruptions and words perverted in form or meaning by false derivation or mistaken analogy.
Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : London, G. Routledge |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1904 |
Genre | : English language |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : BoD – Books on Demand |
Total Pages | : 694 |
Release | : 2023-12-24 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 3385106664 |
Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.
Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : Sagwan Press |
Total Pages | : 708 |
Release | : 2015-08-25 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781340282028 |
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Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 710 |
Release | : 2016-09-17 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9781333644109 |
Excerpt from Folk-Etymology: A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions or Words Perverted in Form or Meaning, by False Derivation or Mistaken Analogy If there's any foreign language [read to them] which can't be explained, I've seen the costers annoyed at it - quite annoyed, says one intimate with their habits in Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor (vol. I. P. 27 He read to them a portion of a newspaper article in which occurred the words noblesse and qai n'est point noble n'est m'en. I can't tumble to that barrikin [understand that gibberish], said a young fellow, it's a jaw - breaker. Noblesse said another, Blessed if I know what he's up to, and here there was a regular laugh. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : Nabu Press |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2013-12 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781293388310 |
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Author | : Abram Smythe Palmer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 664 |
Release | : 1882 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |