57. Word-formation and folk etymology : Word-Formation An International Handbook of the Languages of EuropeMichelSascha
What I mean to say, ultimately, is that “chav” is an ugly word, but its real etymology is a living record of the linguistic heritage of generations of Romani people in Britain, conversing in a language that was long viewed with suspicion, derision, and ignorance—which, despite all this...
Lloyd [41] provides various examples of seemingly magical uses of spiders in the treatment of adverse human medical conditions and citing Pliny (first century C.E.) describes how spiders put into some oil and boiled on the fire can remove earache when some of the oil is dropped into the ea...