It was only a matter of time before this pseudo-etymology, or folk etymology, became the main usage.
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Tracking the etymology of the phrase is a difficult enterprise.
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"Liberal", of course, shares an etymology with "liberty" and "liberation".
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Everything that's precious is also precarious (they share an etymology).
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The etymology of swamp is German, from sponge or fungus.
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Its etymology is to till the earth in preparation for seed.
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Etymology and the history of language are intriguing in their own right.
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Yeah, you're totally in the world that I'm in, etymology and semantics.
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According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, it's actually two words smushed together.
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The etymology of the two words is different, however, so it's allowable.
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The etymology suggests that disasters are destined, inevitable, like a Greek tragedy.
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Intimacy's etymology traces back to the latin intimus, which means inner most.
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In its etymology are the Greek verb misein, to hate, and gyne, women.
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NACKTKULTUR, THE OTHER TERM by which Freikörperkultur once went, has a disputed etymology.
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A brief etymology explainer: When you take a psychedelic like shrooms, you trip.
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Upon looking up the etymology of this particular lingo, I was not disappointed.
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But no less than that of polytropos, the etymology of "complicated" is revealing.
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I think of it in terms of its etymology, which means multiple loves.
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The word "encyclopedia" has a rather poetic etymology, "enkuklios paideia," or all-around education.
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He studied English, then French, and later discovered a passion for Latin and etymology.
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For the etymology nerds out there, the word "clique" is, perhaps unsurprisingly, of French origin.
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The etymology behind things we say and write every day can have some unexpected roots.
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You don't need to know Hebrew etymology to see that "soul" doesn't fit the analogy.
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Since then, he has become a student of pastrami, studying its history and even its etymology.
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Whether human or snake, the name's etymology is pretty unambiguously South Asian but the character is not.
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In your mother language, German, these noises—"das Rauschen"—and ecstasy—"der Rausch"—share a common etymology.
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" Darius explains the etymology to Earn in the first episode: "Christmas approaches, and everybody's got to eat.
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A previous version of this article referred incorrectly to the etymology of the "most versatile" curse word.
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And both candidates spent an inordinate amount of time discussing the etymology of the word "progressive," Shephard says.
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Founded by Roman Sipe in 2014, Menagerié has a pretty obvious etymology, but its mission is more complex.
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We also utilized the etymology of the word "anomalous," which means deviating from the norm, doing something unusual.
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The etymology of the word shillelagh is also unclear, as it is neither English nor Gaelic in origin.
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" According to the online Etymology Dictionary, it comes "from the Greek eirenikos, from eirene, 'peace, time of peace.
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" But come to think of it, he says, "etymology relates pornography to the broader themes in Sontag's work.
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Lauterbach is fascinated by a word's etymology, and how traces of its history remain in its current usage.
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It's literally right there in the etymology of the adjective a lot of reporters pick to describe the guy!
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Not to get too pseudo-intellectual on you with the etymology, but obviously, the current vernacular developed over time.
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And then, there are people like me, who listen to etymology podcasts and know far too much about words.
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Worcester, on the other hand, was a solid, meticulous scholar familiar with the latest advances in etymology and philology.
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She walks the reader, chapter by chapter, through different aspects of a definition, including grammar, pronunciation, etymology and more.
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The former is Latin, and the etymology alone represents a long history of feeling oneself as under Western eyes.
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According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the first person identified as sexy was the silent film star Rudolph Valentino.
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Etymology and unappetizing images aside, a classic tafelspitz makes for a crowd-pleasing, satisfying yet relatively light beef-centered meal.
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We're word nerds over here, so this little BBC history on the etymology of "cyber" was right up our alley.
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Look up the etymology of 'anger' and you'll find that it derives from the Old Norse adjective 'ongrfullr' meaning 'sorrowful.
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He delighted in etymology, synonyms and antonyms, slang, swear words, palindromes, anatomical terms, neologisms (but objected, in principle, to contractions).
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It's of Yiddish origin, and one would think in the slob/sloppy family, but there's a lot of etymology there.
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Cleve Evans is a professor at Bellevue University in Nebraska who studies onomastics — the history and etymology of proper names.
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The etymology is likely more prosaic: the posthumous distortion of the name Euphemius, a ninth-century Byzantine commander in Sicily.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads MINNEAPOLIS — The history of arts patronage is a patriarchal affair, beginning with the word's etymology.
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Today it refers to ETYMOLOGY, the study of the origins of words, their roots, and how language has changed over time.
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He originally conceived it as an illustration for an article in the New York Times Magazine about the etymology of borders.
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No clarification on the etymology and usage of slapjack vs flapjack, but either one does just fine with butter and maple syrup.
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We leaned heavily on the Online Etymology Dictionary (OED) for information, in addition to various online dictionaries such as Merriam-Webster, Dictionary.
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But, one doesn't have to understand the etymology of a word or phrase to propagate its poison or to embody its intentions.
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There's a folk etymology as well––going in meant you were headed out of sight and into a zone of ill repute.
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We rarely live up to our own etymology, but in this matter it poses no great trouble for us to do so.
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There are differing opinions, by people who know (or are interested in) the etymology of SCHMUCK, of its appropriateness for ordinary use.
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It resembles a twisted shell—happily so, for those who know the etymology of "porcelain"—but it is in fact a bean pod.
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Steaks should be sold only on a pointed stick, on the grounds that most shoppers will rely on the proto-Indo-European etymology.
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Americans — and legions of sneaker-wearing folks across the globe –– are so familiar with the Nike brand that its etymology likely goes unquestioned.
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Originally, to be a diva meant to be a female opera singer, and its etymology comes from a Latin word literally meaning 'goddess.
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For those on stage at the National Spelling Bee this week, it often meant five hours a day memorizing words or studying etymology.
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The etymology of the term dates back to the use of comical cartoon strips inserted into American newspapers in the late 19th century.
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"Ethics" has a Greek etymology; Aristotle used the Greek word to cover the study of the question what it is to live well.
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The Old English "steop" means loss, and the etymology paints a bleak portrait: "For stepmoder is selde guod," reads one account from 210.
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I wrote in my diary that year that I wanted to study etymology, though I had an imperfect idea of what that was.
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No matter how steeped in etymology, art history, history, literature, and law – branches of knowledge Youn clearly knows – each poem feels urgent and necessary.
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"Call Me By Your Name" features a bunch of academics lounging in the sunkissed Italian countryside and debating the etymology of the word "apricot".
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The term "riding shotgun" or to "ride shotgun" became a popular idiom in the 1950s, appearing in many western movies, according to Etymology Dictionary.
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"Etymology is destiny," Suketu Mehta writes in "This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant's Manifesto," his searing new book about migration past and present.
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His uncle had helped introduce the field of Middle Eastern History to the American academy, and he was a respected scholar of Persian etymology.
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KAPUT might surprise you in its etymology; I had always assumed it to be purely Yiddish, but apparently the French coined it playing cards.
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Or perhaps another way to interpret the etymology is that utopias are not places at all, but something else: a state of mind, perhaps?
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I can't help but wonder if she's playing with the etymology of the word "stanza," which unpacks into a literal "standing place" or room.
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An illuminating case of a different kind is that of Sevan Nisanyan, a 59-year-old linguist and author of an etymology of modern Turkish.
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Each one contains a few sentences of Nazi writing and the etymology of a specific German word, both its original meaning and its distorted one.
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If you're open to looking beyond the 2-dimensional grid of black and white squares, you can learn about more than just vocabulary and etymology.
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The etymology of the term "chess pie" is dubious at best, but all you need to know is that it's delicious and super simple to make.
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If you want to go back to the etymology, "amateur" comes from the French for "lover of"; pursuing an interest for its own sake is liberating.
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But, as historian David Graeber points out in his excellent etymology of credit, Debt: The First 5,000 Years, this account of early civilization is a myth.
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LUKE CARRLondon Johnson, ruminating on the secret meaning of "feisty" (February 13th) would have done well to have provided a whiff, as it were, of etymology.
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That's what the true etymology of amateur is—it really did feel like these are all good-hearted people who just love acting and telling stories.
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Through looping, meandering and backtracking discourse, he addresses hundreds of subjects, including philosophy, etymology, anti-Semitism, breeding, the Polish cavalry, lost sound and scent histories, theater.
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The etymology of RAISING CAIN indicates that "raising" is conjuring, and "Cain" is the first murderer in the Old Testament, so you're really asking for WOE.
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Known in Russian as stukachi — literally, "knockers" — a Soviet term of uncertain etymology, informers basically serve as spies for the Russian state at home and abroad.
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These symptoms led to a reputation of "madness" among hatmakers, and the expression "mad as a hatter" probably grew from there (though its etymology is disputed).
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This missed the point that the word is routinely awarded its due as a plural noun in scientific and medical literature in accord with its Latin etymology.
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"The resistance to pesticides—that is what really sets them apart," Lance Osborne, a professor of etymology at the University of Florida, said according to the report.
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"In France, the etymology of animal, from the Latin anima (soul) was ancient, but the distinction of human and animal dated from the 17th century," he writes.
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This etymology suggests that an author's inventions are as precious as human lives and liberty, and that his preciousness is literal, in the sense of lost property.
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A dictionary is really a database; it has fields for headword, pronunciation, etymology, definition, and in the case of historical dictionaries like the OED, citations of past usages.
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The etymology of this entry is easy, if you've ever seen the stereotypical setting for one of these shots — pinned up in a boy's locker or a garage.
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" The Online Etymology Dictionary says coulrophobia "looks suspiciously like the sort of thing idle pseudo-intellectuals invent on the internet and which every smarty-pants takes up thereafter.
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Such as wiring money or ... Actually, this is an interesting kind of ... The etymology of that word, when you "wire money," do you know what that comes from?
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" In addition to its French etymology, Canon "means official of the church," Ayesha shares: "Our faith is everything to us, and so we just thought it fit so much.
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In nontheme news, I liked GO TO RUIN, THE MIKADO, HOLODECK, PETARD (because who doesn't love that word?), BANH MI (because yum), POLAR BEAR, ETYMOLOGY, NEON DEION and MALFEASANCE.
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First opened at 21994 Mercer Street in 20163, it moves to the corner of Christopher and Gay Streets (the etymology of Gay Street's name, incidentally, is a total coincidence).
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Luckily, after a frantic Google search, I was rescued by the Disney television series of the same name, and in the process learned quite a bit about its etymology.
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Having as far as he knew invented the word, Tolkien provided an imaginary etymology for hobbit, in order to fit the word into the linguistic landscape of Middle-earth.
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NATIONAL An article on Tuesday about the Supreme Court's decision to hear a case related to vulgar trademarks referred incorrectly to the etymology of the "most versatile" curse word.
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He is hounded, a word whose etymology is chillingly displayed in the film, by a pack of what his wife calls "nigger dogs," trained to hunt and capture escaped slaves.
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"Her ability to go between what her kids love, that wonky dimension of history, etymology and what food says about the Mexican outlook on life is remarkable," Ms. Martin said.
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This item from our etymology files is actually pretty late: a newspaper clipping from the 1970s that someone sent us, which presents the origins of the word as completely factual.
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Many of today's great black ministers come from elite divinity schools and can inflect their homilies with biblical historicity, Greek and Hebrew etymology, and the modern theology of Tillich and Niebuhr.
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It's online, you can look it up in a dozen languages, multiple translations, the context and syntax and etymology of every word — any 12-year-old can dig that up today.
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The admonishment here goes back to 1829 and is a phrase that works when spoken in French too, "Allez bord," so the etymology may stem from l'autre side of the pond.
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While Romoser may just be fooling around with the intention to bug the etymology community, the desire for Earth life to not be alone in the solar system is a strong one.
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The word PIPS having to do with spots on a gaming piece can be traced back to around 1600 — its original form is thought to be "peeps" — but the etymology is unknown.
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An unidentified person drew the symbol on a whiteboard in the school after a teacher's written notes during an a etymology lesson about the naming of the Nazi political party, The Post reported.
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Etymology might seem dry, but the connections between words feel to me like the connectedness I felt while giving birth — that I was related to every woman who had ever given birth throughout time.
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Dr. Gell-Mann also had a compulsion, upon meeting new people, to provide them with the etymology and proper pronunciation of their names, going on to expound on seemingly any subject under the sun.
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The "beyond" of ultra- gave way to the "expulsion" of out-, and "rage" — having nothing whatsoever to do with the original etymology — bubbled up, as rage often does, to steal focus from everything else.
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An example of such an entry is GYP, whose etymology I learned the hard way — by including it in a crossword (thinking it was benign) and hearing that it had ruined some solvers' experiences.
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There has been some criticism of the actual etymology of the word, because the Greek root "skolio" can mean "tortuous" or "crooked" (like "scoliosis"), which implies that people who identify as skoliosexual are somehow broken.
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The answer might lie in its pseudo-etymology, which tempts people to see it as a combination of "out" and "rage," a simple venting of anger rather than a violence beyond the standards of decency.
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In addition to Latin etymology , movies, and Piero della Francesca, she brings in urban legends and slang – the high and low, or what Clement Greenberg called "avant-garde and kitsch," without ever devolving into the latter.
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" The chef Jonathan Waxman, 68, who owns the Manhattan restaurants Barbuto and Jams, said that we older diners are true in our tastes to the etymology of the word "restaurant," which promises to "restore one's spirit.
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Women's Words centers on the female radical pronounced "nu" (女)—a symbol which has been a source of contention among feminists because of its visual etymology (the original female radical depicted a woman bowing before a man).
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Most of the people who listen, and deliver, to their voters are derisively called "populists" by politicians who failed their mission and, worse, by the media who ignore, or intentionally pervert, the etymology of the word itself.
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This hand-drawn topographic map of the Red Planet is not only filled with rover landing sites and official landmark names from the Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature, it also features a complete etymology of Martian crater names.
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Before gaining popularity in SoCal as a novel departure from more classical architecture, the small (often one-story) abodes' etymology traces back to 19th century India when they were first designed as casual resting spots for travelers.
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After all, criticism requires something more than mere accumulation: As the etymology of the word implies (it derives from krinein, "to separate or decide"), what you leave out is just as important as what you put in.
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In case you're wondering about the word's etymology (its origin and history -- don't say you didn't learn anything here today!), it originally came from the French language and meant a "superstitious religious hypocrite" in the 16th century. 8.
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What "kawaii" actually means is "cute" or, by extension, "cool," but its etymology also has undertones of "helpless" and "pathetic," which is why it's so suited to describing baby-like characters with huge heads such as Hello Kitty.
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The act of doxing (its etymology is an alteration of docs or documentation) has been around since the '103s — it used to mean just compiling documents on someone; in the 210s, it meant sharing their personal information publicly.
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I sometimes tell students that geology is the etymology of the world and I think most people don't realize it but would love to have a rational explanation for how the world around them got to be the way it is.
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Its precise etymology is unclear, but in 1986, the Washington Post columnist David Broder wrote of a Republican congressman's efforts to "find an issue that would drive a wedge into … the 'unnatural' and 'unstable' Democratic coalition" of blacks and poor whites.
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The etymology is probably from heroin users, who referred to the drug as "Harry Jones," rather than the more suburban "keeping up with the Joneses," where your addictions are to better cars and fancier holiday decorations than those of your neighbors.
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Her prose has a swift, natural fluidity that reveals a holistic view of humanity; on a single page she brings together close readings of novels, historiography, etymology, political crusading, and philosophical meditations that themselves would be at home in a (great) novel.
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