Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 2)
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Publication date: 30.09.2020
Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis, 2020, Volume 137, Issue 3, pp. 187 - 197
https://doi.org/10.4467/20834624SL.20.014.12719Authors
Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 2)
Etymologies are proposed for twelve previously unexplained English words from working-class or underclass English vocabulary. Treated in Part 2 of this study are aloof/aluff, boondoggle, and welch/jew/gyp. Common features are isolation, extended use, pejoration, and treatment by lexicographers with varying degrees of proscriptiveness and by word buffs with enthusiastic amateur etymologizing.
This is the second part of a study begun in Sayers (2020).
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Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 2)
Twelve English etymologies from the social margins (Part 2)
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