Author: Palmer, Abram Smythe
Title: The Folk and their Word-lore : An Essay on Popular Etymologies
Description: London, G. Routledge, 1904. orig.cloth. 17x12cm, viii,194 pp. Top spine-edge rubbed. Top page-edges gilt. VG. ¶ Contents: Folk-Etymology; Foreign Words Metamorphosed; Popular Etymologies;The Folk as Etymologists; Words Popularly Mistaken; Some Verbal Corruptions; Mistaken Analogies; Misinterpretations.

Keywords: English Etymology, Folklore Folk, Popular, Language, Linguistics, Provincialisms, Linguistic, Languages,