@article{fd394110-f9c0-4362-8627-90ecd61e6728,
author = {William Sayers},
title = {Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 1)},
journal = {Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis},
volume = {2020},
number = {Volume 137, Issue 2},
year = {2020},
issn = {1897-1059},
pages = {111-122},keywords = {popular speech; lexicography; English etymology},
abstract = {Etymologies are proposed for twelve previously unexplained English words from working-class or underclass English vocabulary. Treated in Part 1 of this study are cod as ‘dupe’ and codswallop, mollycoddle / mollycot, natty, and yokel. Common features are isolation, extended use, pejoration, and treatment by lexicographers with varying degrees of proscriptiveness and by word buffs with enthusiastic amateur etymologizing.},
doi = {10.4467/20834624SL.20.009.12441},
url = {https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/twelve-english-etymologies-from-the-social-margins-part-1}
}