TY - JOUR
TI - Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 1)
AU - Sayers, William
TI - Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 1)
AB - 
	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.
VL - 2020
IS - Volume 137, Issue 2
PY - 2020
SN - 1897-1059
C1 - 2083-4624
SP - 111
EP - 122
DO - 10.4467/20834624SL.20.009.12441
UR - https://ejournals.eu/czasopismo/studia-linguistica-uic/artykul/twelve-english-etymologies-from-the-social-margins-part-1
KW - popular speech
KW - lexicography
KW - English etymology