Folk-etymology : a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning by false derivation or mistaken analogy

Author(s)

• Palmer, Abram Smythe

Bibliographic Information

Folk-etymology : a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in form or meaning by false derivation or mistaken analogy

by A. Smythe Palmer

Greenwood Press, [1969]

Note

Reprint of the 1883 ed

Originally published: London : Henry Holt, 1888

Details

• NCID: BA10091006
• ISBN:
  • 0837111536
• LCCN: 68057636
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: xxviii, 664 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PE1584
  • DC : 427.09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : English language -- Etymology -- Dictionaries
  • LCSH : English language -- Provincialisms