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Folk Etymology : Grammatical Terms in Linguistics
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// n. The process by which a word or phrase, usually one of seemingly opaque formation, is arbitrarily reshaped so as to yield a form which is considered to be more transparent. English examples include sparrowgrass (for asparagus), Welsh rarebit (for...
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Folk Etymology : Phonetics and Phonology Terms
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n. The process by which a word or phrase, usually one of seemingly opaque formation, is arbitrarily reshaped so as to yield a form which is considered to be more transparent. English examples include sparrowgrass (for asparagus), Welsh rarebit (for...
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