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This category is for articles that focus on the detailed discussion of the etymology, including the history and origin, of a term.
For articles dedicated to reviewing the possible definitions and usage of a particular term, see Category:Definitions
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Tone Deaf
Wed, 22 May 2013 19:54:57 -0700
With artists getting kookier and kookier with their monikers, it's hard not to wonder what it all means. From !!! to Owl Eyes to Pink Floyd to Yolanda Be Cool, we've decided to get our Shakespeare on and ask the ever-pertinent question "What's in a name?
|  PopMatters |
PopMatters
Mon, 20 May 2013 07:02:58 -0700
One of the English language's most confounding terms, with its murky etymologies and particularly harsh phonetics, it has been both celebrated and reviled by feminists, scholars, and artists. Phair surely understands—and exploits—that ongoing tension ...
|  Crikey (blog) |
Crikey (blog)
Thu, 09 May 2013 01:12:21 -0700
They then used existing constructed etymologies of what these words might have looked like at the earliest points for all of these language families (which is, itself, controversial), and then worked out whether these cognates could be used to work out ...
|  OUPblog (blog) |
OUPblog (blog)
Wed, 08 May 2013 05:32:09 -0700
In 1864 Webster's original etymologies underwent a drastic revision by C. A. F. Mahn, a German philologist, who, as one of our correspondents assured me, had never made it to America (I had suspected the truth but could find almost nothing on him) and ...
|  Christian Science Monitor |
Christian Science Monitor
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:32:39 -0700
Etymologies aren't definitions, though, and so here's a definition from WordNet: "the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done ...
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The Crozet Gazette
Mon, 06 May 2013 11:05:55 -0700
Curzan and Quinion both refer to “folk etymologies,” creative accounts that people have devised to explain idiomatic origins, but for which linguists can find no actual evidence. In this category fall some of my favorites. To “mind your p's and q's ...
|  Bwog |
Bwog
Sat, 27 Apr 2013 17:20:21 -0700
She looked up the French etymologies to make sure she had things exactly right (helping her own handling of the English language). In translating, she had “given into a certain immersion” where “no amount of effort was too much.” It was rewarding but ...
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The Star Online
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:02:45 -0700
However, I make no count of their etymologies in this article. My first logophilous (my coinage under Elster's spell) outing with Elster appeared in Mind Our English on Feb 4, 2004, and being a closet verbivore – someone who devours words, I dated him ...
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