%0 Journal Article
%T Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 1)
%A Sayers, William
%J Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis
%V 2020
%R 10.4467/20834624SL.20.009.12441
%N Volume 137, Issue 2
%P 111-122
%K popular speech, lexicography, English etymology
%@ 1897-1059
%D 2020
%U https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/twelve-english-etymologies-from-the-social-margins-part-1
%X 
	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.