Etymologie, Etimología, Étymologie, Etimologia, Etymology
US Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, Estados Unidos de América, États-Unis d'Amérique, Stati Uniti d'America, United States of America
Falsche Freunde, Faux Amis, False Friends

false friends (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/false_friends
am 16.07.2003 war jedoch noch kein Eintrag im Wikipedia vorhanden.

A

America's Cup, Louis Vuitton Cup (W3)

Obwohl die Bezeichnung auf 'Amerika' schliessen lässt, wurde die Trophäe von der englischen Königin Viktoria in auftrag gegeben und von dem englischen Juwelier R&G Garrard in London gefertigt. Den Namen erhielt sie allerdings nach der Yacht ersten Manschaft, die das Segelrennen rund um die Insel Isle of Wight 1851 gewann. Es war die Yacht "America" des New Yorkers Yacht Club.

Mit der Zeit wuchs die Zahl der Anmeldungen trotz der hohen Startgebühr. Mitte der 80er Jahre führte Louis Vuitton deshalb ein System von Ausscheidungsrennen ein, die vor dem eigentlichen America's Cup ausgetragen werden. Diese wurden entsprechend auch "Louis Vuitton Cup" genannt.

jeff560
Some Common Misspellings

(E?)(L1) http://jeff560.tripod.com/words9.html


B

bull, bullshit (W3)

Anscheinend hat das erst Anfang des 20. Jh. aufgekommene engl. "bullshit" = "Scheißdreck", nichts mit dem "Bullen" zu tun, sondern geht auf altfrz. "boul" zurück, das mit Icel. "bull" = "nonsense" zusammenhängt. Es gibt auch ein Verb "bull" = "täuschen", "narren", "beschwindeln", "betrüge", das seit 1532 bekannt ist.

(E6)(L1) http://www.anglizismenindex.de/
(E?)(L?) http://www.buzzwordbingogame.com/cards/bullshit/
Bullshit Bingo

(E?)(L?) http://www.crookedtimber.org/archives/003235.html

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JR 02.14.05 at 6:36 pm

Unfortunately, Frankfurt’s amusing essay seems to contain a bit of "bullshit" of its own. Frankfurt pontificates that the word "bull" is a sanitized version of "bullsit" and quotes extensively about "bull" from older British sources such as the OED. Undoubtedly modern Americans believe that "bull" is short for "bullshit", but this is a folk etymology that shouldn’t be read back into historical sources.

"Bull" meaning "nonsense" or "misinformation" is hundreds of years old, while "bullshit" is perhaps 90 years old and became popular only during WWII.

The etymology of "bull" has nothing to do with cattle and appears to be from Latin "boiling", "bubbling" - so the original meaning would have been something like "froth". (Think of "ebullient", from the same root. Teddy Roosevelt’s "bully", meaning "terrific" or "brilliant", is related.) The "nonsense" meaning may have been influenced by- or may itself have influenced- the expression "cock-and-bull story", meaning a tall tale. (The origin of that phrase is likely from an Aesop’s fable-type of story.) "To bull" as a verb came to mean "to push up the price of a stock", and is related to the phrase "bull market". (Here "bull" nonsense and "bull" an aggressive herd animal intersect.) The idea of spreading overly optimistic information about a stock could have influenced the more general meaning of "bull" as intentional misinformation.

Lastly, I’ve found a couple of intriguing but inconclusive websites that state that "bull" in modern Icelandic means "nonsense" - this would point to a Germanic root. Anyone out there speak Icelandic? "Bullshit" may have started out as an intensifier of "bull", or it may have been independent. Paul Fussell in his book "Wartime" writes of what he and his fellow soldiers called "chickenshit" - demeaning and pointless army procedures. Frankfurt quotes British soldiers who called this sort of thing "bull" - so perhaps Americans conflated the two. Or perhaps not. In any event "bull" in 19th and early 20th century English sources is not a sanitized version of "bullshit" and Frankfurt is in error when he tries to draw conclusions about "bullshit" from these sources.
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(E?)(L1) http://www.dack.com/web/bullshit.html
Web Economy Bullshit Generator

(E?)(L?) http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=bullshit
(E?)(L?) http://www.fernsehserien.de/index.php?abc=P
Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (USA 2003)

(E?)(L?) http://www.hirschbeutel.de/bullshit_bingo.html
Bullshit Bingo

(E?)(L?) http://www.jelks.nu/misc/articles/bs.html

Harry Frankfurt, Princeton University
One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much "bullshit". Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize "bullshit" and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry.
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(E?)(L?) http://www.lib.ru/ENGLISH/american_idioms.txt
(E2)(L1) http://www.mundmische.de/


(E1)(L1) http://podictionary.com/?p=379
bullshit - podictionary 376

(E?)(L?) http://www.tv-kult.de/index.php?site=sendungen&m=SP
Penn & Teller: Bullshit!

(E?)(L1) http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bullshit
(E?)(L?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullshit

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"Bull", meaning nonsense, dates from the 17th century, while the term "bullshit" has been used as early as 1915 in American slang,[2] and came into popular usage only during World War II. The word "bull" itself may have derived from the Old French boul meaning "fraud, deceit" (Oxford English Dictionary). The term "horseshit" is a near synonym.

The earliest attestation mentioned by the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is in fact T. S. Eliot, who between 1910 and 1916 wrote an early poem to which he gave the title "The Triumph of Bullshit", written in the form of a ballade. The first stanza goes:
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(E1)(L1) http://www.wortwarte.de/
Bullshit-Detector | Bullshitfrage | Bullshitting

C

D

Desktop, Laptop (W2)

(E6)(L?) http://www.at-mix.de/laptop.htm
(E6)(L?) http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb/fn/relhbi/sfn/buildhbi/cn/GoArt!200104,300458,988666/SH/0/depot/0/
Stand-PCs werden ünlicherweise "Desktop" genannt und tragbare PCs "Laptop". Beide Begriffe sind eigentlich irreführend.

Zum Einen bedeutet engl. "Desktop" genaugenommen "(Schreib-)Tischplatte". Der "Desktop" müsste also "Desktop-PC" oder "desktop computer" heissen, was wohl ursprünglich auch der Fall war. Der "Desktop" ist also eher der Schnellsprach zuzuschreiben.
Aber der "Desktop Computer" ist auch insofern irreführend, als er schon seit einigen jahren nicht mehr "auf" sondern "unter" dem Schreibtisch, (genauer:) unter der Schreibtischplatte zu finden ist.

Zum Anderen bedeutet "Laptop" genaugenommen "auf dem Schoß". Der "Laptop" heisst dementsprechend genau genommen auch "laptop computer", also der "Computer zum auf den Schoß stellen". Aber habe Sie schon einmal einen Laptop auf dem Schoß gesehen? - Ja es gibt sie wirklich, aber arbeiten kann man so nicht. Und mit externer Maus, externen Laufwerken und Druckern ist man auf jeden fall auf einen Tisch angewiesen. Und diese Laptops stehen nun tatsächlich "auf" dem Tisch.

Um die Sprache den aktuellen Gegebenheiten anzupassen, müsste man also die "desktop computer" in "under desktop computer" oder "deskunder computer" heißen, oder wie wäre es mit "subdesk computer".
Ja und dann wäre der Begriff "desktop computer" ja wieder frei für den "laptop computer".


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But, just as the "laptop" is nipping at the heels of the "desktop computer", another smaller, more mobile computing product is nipping at the heels of the laptop. It's the "hand-held digital device", including top-of-the-line "cellphones" and "portable media players", notably Apple's "iPods".
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E

Eggcorn, acorn, egg-corn, egg corn, *g (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://www.bobcongdon.net/blog/2004/03/eggcorn.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001261.php
(E?)(L?) http://www.languagehat.com/archives/2004_04.php
(E?)(L?) http://serendipity.lascribe.net/ling-lang/2004/08/eggcorn-continuum-with-a-gay-core/
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000734.html
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000955.html
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/001671.html
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/2004_05.html
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/2004_06.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.thomasirven-art.com/galley/items/eggcorn.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.dwb.uni-trier.de/
(E?)(L?) http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=eggcorn&meta=
"eggcorn" = "a spell-as-you-speak error"
"Eggcorn" wird im "Languagelog" als Bezeichnung für ein falsch verstandenes Wort benutzt. "Eggcorn" selbst ist ebenfalls als falsch verstandenes "acorn" = "Eichel" entstanden. Und selbst dieses "acorn" soll ein früheres Missverständnis enthalten. Dabei wurden "Acker", das "offene Land" mit "Ecker" mhd. "ecker", "ackeran" = "Eichel", "Buchecker", und griech. "akron" = "Spitze" in einen Topf geworfen wurde.

Weitere Hinweise kann man im "Grimm" unter dem Stichwort "Ackeran" finden:

... wie "akrs" ursprünglich "weide" war, ist auch "akran" "frucht der weide", "ertrag der eiche und buche"; als "akrs" "gebautes feld" geworden war, gieng auch "akran" auf die "gesäte und geerntete frucht" über, gerade wie die benennung "glans" sich im verlauf der zeit auf "alle früchte" erstreckte. mit "eiche" quercus, die goth. "aiks" lauten würde, hängt "akran", mit altn. "eik" "akarn" sichtbar nicht zusammen, auch dän. "agern" weicht von "eg", schw. ollon f. "okorn" von "ek", erst ags. "äcern" oder "æcern" könnte sich dem "âc" nähern. s. "eichel" und "eckern".



... discussing the case of a woman who wrote "egg corns" for "acorns". It turns out that this is fairly widespread, probably the product of a dialect in which "egg" is pronounced "aig". Since then the "eggcorn" has become something of a "mascot" at Language Log; today Mark discusses it further, giving the example "hand few" used for "handful" and quoting "Geoff Pullum" to the effect that "eggcorns are tiny little poems, a symptom of human intelligence and creativity," and ends with an Update mentioning a fact I should have recalled myself: the word "acorn" itself contains an earlier misunderstanding.
As the OED says: The formal history of this word has been much perverted by "popular etymology". OE. "æcern" neut., pl. "æcernu", is "cogn". w. ONor. "akarn" neut. (Dan. "agern", Norw. "aakorn"), Dutch "aker" "acorn", OHG. "ackeran" masc. and neut. (mod.G. "ecker", pl. "eckern") "oak or beech mast", Goth. "akran" "fruit", prob. a deriv. of Goth. "akr-s", ONor. "akr", OE. "æcer" "field", orig. "open unenclosed country, the plain". Hence "akran" appears to have been originally "fruit of the unenclosed land, natural produce of the forest", mast of oak, beech, etc., as in HG., extended in Gothic to "fruit" generally, and gradually confined in Low G., Scand., and Eng., to the most important forest produce, the mast of the oak. (See Grimm, under "Ackeran" and "Ecker".) In Ælfric's "Genesis" xliv. 11, it had perhaps still the wider sense, a reminiscence of which also remains in the ME. "akernes of okes". Along with this restriction of application, there arose a tendency to find in the name some connexion with "oak", OE. "ác", north. "ake", "aik". Hence the 15th and 16th c. refashionings "ake-corn", "oke-corn", "ake-horn", "oke-horn", with many pseudo-etymological and imperfectly phonetic variants. Of these the 17th c. literary "acron" seems to simulate the Gr. "a'kron" top, point, peak. The normal mod. repr. of OE. "æcern" would be "akern", "akren", or ? "atchern" as already in [the 14th c.]; the actual "acorn" is due to the 16th c. fancy that the word "corn" formed part of the name.
No wonder "acorn" is such an awkward word, with its half-stressed second syllable, and no wonder people keep eggcorning it. I wish it had been allowed its natural development to "akern", "akren", or "atchern" - but then I wish the plural of "book" had been allowed to develop naturally into "beech". I like the rough surfaces left by nature.


(E?)(L?) http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/2/eggcorn/
(E?)(L?) http://www.mail-archive.com/aqfl-chat@aqfl.com/msg02880.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.newrider.com/Library/Misc_Tips/poisonous_plants2.html
(E?)(L?) http://www.utahcemeteries.org/index.html?pg=grave&cem_id=21&id=250
(E?)(L?) http://www.aristocraft.com/catalog/rollingstock/snowplow/
(E?)(L?) http://www.bfro.net/GDB/CNTS/GA/RM/ga_rm001.htm
(E?)(L?) http://dictionary.reference.com/
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000018.html
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000061.html
(E?)(L?) http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/000734.html

Spotted in the wild: Analyzed or reported by: "Eggcorn", at first "egg corn", is the original "eggcorn". This misspelling for "acorn" was first reported by Mark Liberman at Language Log, citing a discovery by Chris Potts, on September 23, 2003. Geoffrey Pullum suggested the term "eggcorn" to refer to this particular kind of spontaneous malapropism.
The word "acorn" itself may have undergone the same reshaping process, ie once have been an "eggcorn". See the American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition, 2000:

ETYMOLOGY: Middle English "akorn", from Old English "æcern".
WORD HISTORY: A thoughtful glance at the word "acorn" might produce the surmise that it is made up of "oak" and "corn", especially if we think of "corn" in its sense of "a kernel or seed of a plant", as in peppercorn. The fact that others thought the word was so constituted partly accounts for the present form "acorn". Here we see the workings of the process of linguistic change known as folk etymology, an alteration in form of a word or phrase so that it resembles a more familiar term mistakenly regarded as analogous. "Acorn" actually goes back to Old English "æcern", "acorn", which in turn goes back to the Indo-European root "*g–", meaning "fruit", "berry".
This was reported by Daniel Ezra Johnson and documented by Mark Liberman.


Eggcorn Database (W3)

(E?)(L?) http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/
(E?)(L?) http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/english/2/eggcorn/
(E?)(L?) http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/about/
(E?)(L?) http://eggcorns.lascribe.net/browse-eggcorns/
This site collects unusual spellings of a particular kind, which have come to be called eggcorns. Typical examples include "free reign" ("reign" = "Herrschaft") (instead of "free rein") ("rein" = "Zügel") or hone in on (instead of home in on), and many more or less common reshapings of words and expressions: a word or part of a word is semantically reanalyzed, and the spelling reflects the new interpretation. The About page offers more information on the history of the term and of this collection.
The Eggcorn Database went public on February 15, 2005. New entries and features are being added regularly.

The idea to embark on this project hatched in November 2004. I had been interested in language for a long time and become an avid reader of the numerous linguistics blogs that thrive in the English-speaking segment of the blogosphere. Six months earlier I had started a bilingual blog of my own. During the same period, I was working on my web site development and programming skills by learning a little Python and diving into the code of the WordPress blogging tool, which is written in PHP and interfaces with a MySQL Database.

Alphabetical list of all eggcorns in the database: (07.02.2010)


(curled up) in the feeble position see fetal » feeble | (ethnic) routes see root » route | (go (at it)) hammer and thongs see tongs » thongs | ... see pidgin » pigeon | a hair's breath see breadth » breath | a hare's breadth see hair » hare | a mood point see moot » mood | a mute point see moot » mute | a pigment of so.'s imagination see figment » pigment | a posable thumb see opposable » a posable | a shoe-in see shoo » shoe | a shot over the bough see bow » bough | a tough road to hoe see row » road | above/beyond approach see reproach » approach | acorn » eggcorn | ad » and | Adam » atom | ado » adieu | ado » to do | adverse » averse | adverse to see averse » adverse | airwaves » airways | aisle » isle | alimentary » elementary | all for knot see naught » knot | all for not see naught » not | all fours » our fours | all goes well (for) see augurs » all goes | all tolled see told » tolled | all total see told » total | already » all ready | alterior motive see ulterior » alterior | amateur » armature | amateur » amature | amused » bemused | ancestor » ansister | anchors away see weigh » way | and hoc see ad » and | and hominem see ad » and | and infinitum see ad » and | and libitum see ad » and | and nauseam see ad » and | anecdotal » antidotal | another words see in other » another | antidotal evidence see anecdotal » antidotal | appall » uphaul | arrears » the rears | arrow » narrow | arsed (or assed) » asked | as soon » assume | auger well (for) see augur » auger | augur » auger | augurs » all goes | auld » old | averse » adverse | awkward » awkword | Axel » axle | back and call see beck » back | backpedal » backpeddle | bailing wire see baling » bailing | baited breath see bated » baited | bald » bold | baling » bailing | ball one's eyes out see bawl » ball | ban together see band » ban | band » ban | bandied » branded | bandy » banty | bantied about see bandy » banty | barbed » barred | barbed wire » bobwire | bare » bear | bare in mind see bear » bare | bare the brunt see bear » bare | bare the name see bear » bare | bare witness see bear » bare | barred » barrel | barred wire see barbed » barred | barrow » barrel | bass » base | bat » batter | bated » baited | batter an eyelid see bat » batter | bawl » ball | bead » beat | bean stock see stalk » stock | bear » bare | bear-faced lie see bare » bear | bear-handed fight see bare » bear | bear-knuckled see bare » bear | bearbacking see bare » bear | beck » back | beck and call » beckoned call | beck and call » beckon call | beck and call » beacon call | beckon the question see beg » beckon | bed » bread | bedside manor see manner » manor | beg » beckon | behoove » be who of | bellwether » bellweather | benighted » beknighted | beseech » besiege | beyond the pail see pale » pail | bide » buy | bit » pit | bite » byte | black and red fish see blackened » black and | blackened » black and | blackmail » blackmale | bludgeon » bloodgeon | bogged » boggled | bogged down » balked down | boggled down see bogged » boggled | boisterous » voiceterous | bold-faced lie see bald » bold | Bombay chest see bombé » Bombay | bombé » Bombay | bona fide » bonified | boot(-)strap » boots-trap | bouillon » bullion | bow » bough | brand-new » bran-new | branded about see bandied » branded | bread and breakfast see bed » bread | breadth » breath | brim » rim | bring to bare see bear » bare | buck » butt | bud » butt | bull » bowl | bullion cube see bouillon » bullion | bumper to bumper » bumpetta-bumpetta | bupkis, bupkus, bupkiss » buttkiss | bus » bust | bustboy see bus » bust | busting tables see bus » bust | but naked see butt » but | but(-)kicking see butt » but | butt » but | butt » bud | butt naked see buck » butt | buy one's time see bide » buy | by and by » bye and bye | by and large » by enlarge | by and large » by in large | by ear » by year | by-election » bi-election | bylaw » bi-law | byproduct » bi-product | cacciatore » catchitore | cacophony » cacoughany | cahoots » cohorts | can't be asked see arsed (or assed) » asked | canola » granola | car links see lengths » links | cart » cat | case in point » case and point | cat flat see flap » flat | catnap » catchnap | caused someone his/her job, life, etc. see cost » caused | ceanothus » cyanothus | cease » seize | cease and decease see desist » decease | cease the day see seize » cease | cease the opportunity see seize » cease | cell-phone » self-phone | centrifical force see centrifugal » centrifical | centrifugal » centrifical | centripedal force see centripetal » centripedal | centripetal » centripedal | cents » sense | chaise longue » chaise lounge | chalk(ed) full, chalk-filled see chock » chalk(ed) | champ at the bit » chomp at the bit | charm » champ | chase » cheese | chewy nugget see nougat » nugget | chic » sheik | chickens come home to roast see roost » roast | chifforobe » Shiffer robe | chock » chalk(ed) | cholesterol » cholester oil | chord » cord | chute » shoot | cinch » synch | claim heartship see hardship » heartship | cling and clatter see clink » cling | clink » cling | clique » click | co-opt » co-op | coal-hearted see cold » coal | coded » coated | cognitive dissidence see dissonance » dissidence | coif(f)ed » quaffed | cold » coal | cold-hearted » cold harded | collaborating evidence see corroborate » collaborate | color-coated see coded » coated | colors (colours) » collars | coma » comma | come on » common | come to knot see naught » knot | come to not see naught » not | come to turns with see term » turn | coming down the pipe see pike » pipe | commander-in-chief » commander and chief | common everybody see come on » common | common guys see come on » common | congestive » conjunctive | conjunctive heart failure see congestive » conjunctive | contend » content | content with see contend » content | copy writer » copyrighter | copyright » copywrite | cord » chord | corn stock see stalk » stock | cornroll see row » roll | corps » core | corroborate » collaborate | cost » caused | courtesy » curtsey | crosier » crow's ear | cruller » crawler | crutch of the matter see crux » crutch | crux » crutch | cue » queue | curb » curve | curtsey call see courtesy » curtsey | curtsey of see courtesy » curtsey | curve one's appetite see curb » curve | curve one's enthusiasm see curb » curve | curve one's hunger see curb » curve | cut off one's nose despite one's face see to spite » despite | cut to the cheese see chase » cheese | cutting age see edge » age | cuttlefish » cuddlefish | cyberstocking see stalk » stock | cymbal » symbol | Dachshund » Dashound | damp squid see squib » squid | dander » dandruff | dander » gander | dashboard stomach see washboard » dashboard | date » day | dawn » don | dawn » dong | day and age » day in age | dead wringer see ringer » wringer | death charge see depth » death | death throws see throes » throws | deem » deign | deep-seeded see seat » seed | defamation » deformation | deformation of character see defamation » deformation | defunct » defunked | defuse » diffuse | deign worthy (of) see deem » deign | deluded » diluted | demur » demure | depth » death | derring-do » daring-do | desert » dessert | desist » decease | die » dye | die-hard » die-hearted | discard » disguard | disillusioned » dissolutioned | dissonance » dissidence | distraught » diswrought | diuretic » diarrhetic | djinn up see gin » djinn | do » due | do » dew | do diligence see due » do | do process see due » do | do to (the fact, etc.) see due » do | doe » dough | dog-eat-dog » doggy-dog | doggy-dog world see dog-eat-dog » doggy-dog | don » dawn | don on (someone) see dawn » don | don't know buttkiss see bupkis, bupkus, bupkiss » buttkiss | dong on s.o. see dawn » dong | dough-eyed see doe » dough | downright » darn right | draw a beat on see bead » beat | drawl » brawl | drawl » draw | drum up » strum up | dudgeon » dungeon | due » do | due or die see do » due | each his » each's | eavesdrop » eardrop | eavesdrop » ease drop | eclair » eggclair | ectopic » eggtopic | edge » age | eggtopic pregnancy see ectopic » eggtopic | en » on, in | en-suite » un-suite | enact revenge on see exact » enact | enact vengeance on see exact » enact | entree » ontray | espresso » expresso | eternally » internally | euphemism » youthamism | ever » every | every since see ever » every | exact » extract | exact » enact | exclamation » explanation | exercise » exorcise | exorbitant » exuberant | exorcise » exercise | expatriate » expatriot | explanation mark see exclamation » explanation | explanation point see exclamation » explanation | expletive » explicative | explicative deleted see expletive » explicative | exponential » expotential | extract revenge on see exact » extract | extract vengeance on see exact » extract | exuberant prices see exorbitant » exuberant | fair to midland see middlin' » midland | fairy tail see tale » tail | fait » fate | fall by the weigh side see way » weigh | far be it for me see far be it from » far be it for | far be it from » far be it for | far-gone conclusion see foregone » far gone | fartlek » fartlick | fast majority see vast » fast | fast swathes see vast » fast | fate accompli see fait » fate | faze » phase | fell » fowl | fell » foul | ferment trouble/fears/unrest see foment » ferment | fetal » feeble | few » view | figment » pigment | financial heartship see hardship » heartship | fiscal » physical | flair » flare | flap » flat | flaw in the ointment see fly » flaw | flawless » floorless | flesh » flush | flesh against see flush » flesh | flout » flaunt | flush » flesh | flush out see flesh » flush | fly » flaw | flying a flag at half-mass see mast » mass | foment » ferment | font of knowledge see fount » font | font of wisdom see fount » font | foolhearty see hardy » hearty | foolproof » fullproof | foolscap » fullscape | for all intensive purposes see intents and purposes » intensive purposes | foregone » far gone | foreword » forward | founder » flounder | fount » font | free reign see rein » reign | French benefit see fringe » French | French crawler see cruller » crawler | fringe » French | from here on end see in » end | from the gecko see get-go » gecko | front and center » front in center | furl one's brow see furrow » furl | furled brow see furrow » furl | furrow » furl | gain » game | gall » gaul | game » gain | gameful employment see gain » game | gamefully employed see gain » game | gamut » gambit | gamut » gamete | gas turban see turbine » turban | Geiger » giga | get a beat on see bead » beat | get one's dandruff up see dander » dandruff | get one's gander up see dander » gander | get one's nipples in a twist see knickers » nipples | get-go » gecko | ghost » goat | giga counter see Geiger » giga | gin » djinn | gird » girdle | girdle one's loins see gird » girdle | give (someone) his/her do see due » do | give credit where credit is do see due » do | give free range see rein » range | give so. the load down on sth. see lowdown » load down | give up the goat see ghost » goat | go through one's mine see mind » mine | goal standard see gold » goal | gobbledygook » garbledygook | godsend » god's end | gold » goal | granola oil see canola » granola | granted » granite | Grauman » Grumman | grim and bear it see grin » grim | grin » grim | grin and bare it see bear » bare | grow like top seed see Topsy » top seed | Grumman's Chinese Theatre see Grauman » Grumman | gung-ho » gun-ho | guttural » gutteral | hackneyed » hack-kneed | hailed into court, hailed before the court see hale » hail | hair » hare | hair's breadth » hare's breath | hale » hail | half-asked see arsed (or assed) » asked | hallmark » wholemark | Halloween » Holloween | halter monitor see Holter » halter | ham-fisted » hand fisted | hand » hat | handful » hand few | handsome cab see Hansom » handsome | Hansom » handsome | haphazard » half-hazard | harbinger » harbringer | hardily see hearty » hardy | hardship » heartship | hardy » hearty | harebrained » hairbrained | have/get something down packed see pat » packed | hawk » hock | he who plays the piper calls the tune see pay » play | heap » heave | hear » here | hearty » hardy | heave scorn on see heap » heave | heel » heal | hegemony » hedgemoney | here, here see hear » here | heresy » hearsay | hierarchy » higherarchy | hire » higher | hoarfrost » whorefrost | Hobbesian choice see Hobson's » Hobbesian | Hobson's » Hobbesian | hoist » host | holds » holes | Holter » halter | home » hone | hone in on see home » hone | hosted on/by one's own petard see hoist » host | hue and cry » human cry | hybrid » high bred | hydrocele » hydroseal | I'll be darned » all be darned | ilk » elk | immemorial » in memorial | impact(ed) » inpacked | imperial » empirical | imprimatur » impremature | in » end | in able to see order » able | in cohorts with see cahoots » cohorts | in high dungeon see dudgeon » dungeon | in lame man's terms see layman » lame man | in other » another | in shore supply see short » shore | in the mist of see midst » mist | in the rears see arrears » the rears | in/on route (to) see en » on, in | incestuous » insectuous | inclement » inclimate | incorrigible » incourageable | inherent » inherit | integrate » intergrade | intents and purposes » intensive purposes | interfere » interfear | interim » in-term | internally grateful see eternally » internally | intolerant » and tolerant | invaluable » unvaluable | invisible » invincible | jack of all traits see trade » trait | jar-dropping see jaw » jar | jaw » jar | jibe » jive | jointly and severely see severally » severely | just assume see as soon » assume | just desserts see desert » dessert | keel » kill | kick but see butt » but | kill over (and die) see keel » kill | knickers » nipples | knit-pick see nit » knit | knitwit see nit » knit | knotical mile see nautical » knotical | know so. from atom see Adam » atom | kowtow » cow-tow | lack toast and tolerant see lactose » lack toast | lack toast and tolerant see intolerant » and tolerant | lack toast intolerant see lactose » lack toast | lactose » lack toast | lactose and tolerant see intolerant » and tolerant | laissez-faire » lazy-fare | lambast(e) » lamblast | lambast(e) » lambash | landline » LAN line | landlubber » landlover, land lover | lapse into a comma see coma » comma | last ditch » last stitch | last rights see rite » right | laughing stalk see stock » stalk | layman » lame man | leach » leech | learn by route see rote » route | leeway » leadway | left-wind see wing » wind | lemonade » lemon-aid | lengths » links | leper » leopard | let alone » little lone | libel » liable | like a bowl in a china shop see bull » bowl | limb » lurch | limp edema see lymph » limp | linguistics » languistics | lip-sync(h) » lip-sing | livestalk see stock » stalk | lo and behold » long behold | locus » locust | locust of control see locus » locust | loggerheads » lagerheads | lose » loose | lost » loss | lowdown » load down | lymph » limp | magnate » magnet | make a pack with the devil see pact » pack | make dew see do » dew | make due see do » due | make ends meat see meet » meat | make heads or tales of sth. see tail » tale | manna » manner | manner » manor | manner from heaven see manna » manner | mano a mano » mano-on-mano | marble » marball | marsh pit see mosh » marsh | marshal » martial | marshal(l) law see martial » marshall | martial » marshall | mast » mass | medal » metal | meet » meat | metal » medal | mettle » metal | middlin' » midland | midriff » midrift | midst » mist | might » mine | might » my | might as » minus | migraine » mindgrain | militate » mitigate | mince » mix | mind » mine | mind you » mind due | mine as well see might » mine | minus well see might as » minus | mishmash » mixmash | mismatched » mixmatch | mitigate against see militate » mitigate | mix words see mince » mix | Monday detail see mundane » Monday | money is/was no option see object » option | moot » mute | moot » mood | moreover » morever | mores » morays | Morning Becomes Electra see mourning » morning | morning dove see mourning » morning | mosh » marsh | mother lode » motherload | mourning » morning | much adieu see ado » adieu | much to do about nothing see ado » to do | mundane » Monday | my as well see might » my | narrow » arrow | naught » knot | naught » not | nautical » knotical | naval(-)gazing see navel » naval | navel » naval | neck and neck » neck in neck | nether » never | never regions see nether » never | never seizes to amaze see cease » seize | next door » next store | nip in the butt see bud » butt | nit » knit | no holds barrel see barred » barrel | no holes barred see holds » holes | no love loss see lost » loss | no stings attached see string » sting | Nobel laureate » Nobeloriate | nougat » nugget | oats » oaks | object » option | of salt » assault | off the beaten path » off the beat and path | off-quoted see oft » off | off-repeated see oft » off | off-times see oft » off | offended » offened | oft » off | old langsyne see auld » old | old wise tale see wives » wise | old wives tail see tale » tail | old wives' tale » old wise tail | on a whim and a prayer see wing » whim | on a wink and a prayer see wing » wink | on mass see en » on, in | on masse see en » on, in | on tenderhooks see tenterhooks » tenderhooks | on track » untracked | once in a while » once and a while | one and the same » one in the same | one foul swoop see fell » foul | one fowl swoop see fell » fowl | one(-)off » one(-)of | open-mined see mind » mine | opposable » a posable | or other » or rather | order » able | out of » outer | out on a lurch see limb » lurch | outer body experience see out of » outer | overdue » overdo | owe » own | own one's success to see owe » own | owning to see owe » own | pact » pack | paean » peon | pains(-)taking » pain-staking | pale » pail | palm » pawn | pantywaste see waist » waste | paprika » pepperika | paramour » power mower | part and parcel » part in parcel | parting of the waves see way » wave | party hardy see hearty » hardy | pass muster » pass mustard | passed » past | past » passed | past away see passed » past | pat » packed | pawn off (on) see palm » pawn | pay » play | pay-per-view » paper-view | Peace Core see corps » core | peak one's interest see pique » peak | pedal to the medal see metal » medal | pedestal » pedastool | peer » pier | penchant » pension | per aspera and astra see ad » and | per se » per say | peremptory » pre-emptory | perennial » preannual | phased, unphased see faze » phase | physical year see fiscal » physical | pick knits see nit » knit | pidgin » pigeon | piece » peace | pied » pipe | pier-to-pier network see peer » pier | pigeon English see pidgin » pigeon | pike » pipe | pincer » pincher | Pipe Piper see pied » pipe | pique » peak | pits and pieces see bit » pit | plain geometry see plane » plain | plane » plain | plantar » planter | planter warts see plantar » planter | play it by year see by ear » by year | playwright » playwrite | point of you see view » you | poise » pose | | pore » pour | posed to (do something) see poise » pose | post-dramatic stress disorder see traumatic » dramatic | post-pardon depression see postpartum » post-pardon | postpartum » post-pardon | pour over (a text) see pore » pour | powerhouse » powerhorse | pray » prey | pre-emptory challenge see peremptory » pre-emptory | pre-fix menu see prix-fixe » pre-fix | precedent » president | preying mantis see pray » prey | prima donna » pre-madonna | prix-fixe » pre-fix | prospective » perspective | prowess » poweress | pustule » pus jewel | put the cat before the horse see cart » cat | pylon » pie-line | pylon » pile-on | qualm » quorum | quick claim (quickclaim) deed see quitclaim » quickclaim | quitclaim » quickclaim | quote unquote » quote on quote | rabble » rebel | rabble » rubble | rabid » rapid | rain » reign | rain supreme see reign » rain | rampant » rapid | rank and file » ranking file | rapid fan see rabid » rapid | rapt » wrapped | ratify » radify | reap what you sew see sow » sew | rear » reel | rebel rouser see rabble » rebel | reckless » wreckless | reductio and absurdum see ad » and | reek havoc see wreak » reek | reel its (ugly) head see rear » reel | regardless » irregardless | reign » rain | reign in see rein » reign | rein » range | rein » reign | renowned » reknowned | reproach » approach | ride roughshot see roughshod » roughshot | rife with » ripe with | rift » riff | right as reign see rain » reign | right of passage see rite » right | right of way » right away | right-wind see wing » wind | rimful of see brim » rim | rimmed with see brim » rim | rimming with see brim » rim | ring » wring | ring one's hands see wring » ring | ring so.'s neck see wring » ring | ringer » wringer | rite » right | rod iron see wrought » rod | role call see roll » role | roll » role | roller coaster » roll-a-coaster | roost » roast | root » route | rot iron see wrought » rot | rote » route | roughshod » roughshot | route cause see root » route | row » road | row » roll | rubble-rouser see rabble » rubble | rubble-rousing see rabble » rubble | ruckus » raucous | run rapid see rampant » rapid | run roughshot see roughshod » roughshot | run the gambit see gamut » gambit | run the gamete see gamut » gamete | s.o.'s lips are steeled see sealed » steeled | sacred cow » holy cow | sacrilegious » sacreligious | sail (someone) down the river see sell » sail | salchow » sowcow | salchow » sowchow | Sam Hill » Sand Hill | samblind » sand-blind | Sanskrit » sandscript | sarcastic » sartastic | say one's peace see piece » peace | scapegoat » escape goat | scapegoat » scrapegoat | scare » square | scare » scar | Scarlet Teenager see Tanager » teenager | scarred the heck out of see scare » scar | sealed » steeled | seat » seed | segue » segway | seize » cease | seize and desist see cease » seize | seize fire see cease » seize | self-righteous » self-richeous | sell » sail | sensor » censor | set foot » step foot | severally » severely | shoo » shoe | shore-term see short » shore | short » shore | short shift see shrift » shift | short-sighted » short-sided | shrift » shift | shudder » shutter | sing-along » sing-a-long | skeletal staff see skeleton » skeletal | skeleton » skeletal | skewer » skew | skim » skin | skimmed » skimp | skimp milk see skimmed » skimp | skin milk see skim » skin | slack (one's) thirst see slake » slack | slake » slack | slather » smother | sleight » slight | slight of hand see sleight » slight | slings » strings | slings » stings | slither » sliver | sliver » slither | sloe » slow | slow gin see sloe » slow | slow-eyed see sloe » slow | smother on see slather » smother | snub » snob | snuff » stuff | so to speak » sort of speak | soak and wet see soaking » soak and | soak one's wild oats see sow » soak | soaking » soak and | soaping wet see sopping, soaking » soaping | social leopard see leper » leopard | social morays see mores » morays | soft-pedal » soft-peddle | sole » soul | something or rather see or other » or rather | sophomore » southmore | sopping, soaking » soaping | sordid » sorted | sort after see sought » sort | sort for see sought » sort | sought » sort | soul rights see sole » soul | sound byte see bite » byte | soup » supe | Southern brawl see drawl » brawl | Southern draw see drawl » draw | sow » soak | sow » sew | sow one's wild oaks see oats » oaks | spade cat see spayed » spade | spark » sparkle | sparkle protests (etc.) see spark » sparkle | spayed » spade | spear of influence see sphere » spear | sphere » spear | spinal chord see cord » chord | spit and image » spitting image | spout » sprout | spread like wildflowers see wildfire » wildflowers | spur » spurt | spur » spurn | spurt of the moment see spur » spurt | square quotes see scare » square | squeamish » squirmish | squib » squid | stalk » stock | stalk raving mad see stark raving » stalk raving | stalk-still see stock » stalk | star-craving mad see stark raving » star-craving | stark raven mad see stark raving » stark raven | stark raving » stark raven | stark raving » star-craving | stark raving » stalk raving | statute » statue | steam turban see turbine » turban | stings and arrows see slings » stings | stock » stalk | stock » stalk | stole away see stow » stole | stow » stole | straight as a narrow see arrow » narrow | straightjacket, straight-laced, Straight(s) of X see strait » straight | strait » straight | strike » stripe | string » sting | strings and arrows see slings » strings | stripe me pink see strike » stripe | strong suite see suit » suite | strum up support see drum up » strum up | suit » suite | Summer Teenager see Tanager » teenager | suped-up see soup » supe | surname » sirname | tack » tact | tact » tack | tail » tale | take another tact see tack » tact | take for granite see granted » granite | take the reigns of power see rein » reign | take with a grain assault see of salt » assault | tale » tail | Tanager » teenager | tartar » tarter | tarter sauce see tartar » tarter | tatterdemalion » tattermedallion | tattle-tail see tale » tail | tell-tail see tale » tail | ten year professor see tenure(d) » ten year | ten-year track position see tenure(d) » ten year | tenet » tent | tenet » tenant | tenterhooks » tenderhooks | tenure(d) » ten year | term » turn | term of speech see turn » term | the bud of someone's jokes see butt » bud | the dye is cast see die » dye | the invincible hand see invisible » invincible | the Monday world see mundane » Monday | the straight and arrow see narrow » arrow | thrall » trawl | threw » through | throes » throws | throes » throngs | throngs of passion see throes » throngs | through (someone) for a loop see threw » through | throws of passion see throes » throws | thumbs up » thumps up | tide » tie | tie one over see tide » tie | tighty-whitey » tidy-whitey | time in memorial see immemorial » in memorial | tinderbox » tenderbox | to each's own see each his » each's | to name a view see few » view | to spite » despite | to-do » ta-do | toe » tow | toe-head see tow » toe | toe-headed see tow » toe | told » tolled | told » total | tongs » thongs | tongue in cheek » tongue and cheek | Topsy » top seed | torch paper see touch » torch | touch » torch | touch a cord see chord » cord | tow » toe | tow the line see toe » tow | track » tract | tract » track | trade » trait | traitor » trader | traumatic » dramatic | treasure cove see trove » cove | tried » trite | trite and true see tried » trite | trove » cove | try one's hat at sth. see hand » hat | turbine » turban | turn » term | two sense worth see cents » sense | ulterior » alterior | uncharted » unchartered | underlying » underlining | underlying » underline | undue » undo | untimely » on timely | untolled see told » tolled | up and coming » up incoming | up to day see date » day | up to stuff see snuff » stuff | uphauled see appall » uphaul | uphauling see appall » uphaul | urologist » eurologist | utmost » upmost | vale » veil | valedictorian » valevictorian | vantage » vintage | vast » fast | veil of tears see vale » veil | versus » verses | Via Dolorosa » Via de la Rosa | view » you | vintage point see vantage » vintage | vocal chords see cord » chord | wail away at see whale » wail | waist » waste | walk down the isle see aisle » isle | wander » wonder | wangle » wrangle | washboard » dashboard | wasteband see waist » waste | water turban see turbine » turban | way » wave | way » weigh | way anchor see weigh » way | way in (on) see weigh » way | weigh » way | weigh station see way » weigh | weigh-lay see way » weigh | well-healed see heel » heal | wet one's appetite see whet » wet | whale » wail | what in/the/in the Sand Hill see Sam Hill » Sand Hill | wheedle down see whittle » wheedle | wheel barrel see barrow » barrel | whence » whenst | whet » wet | while » wild | whittle » wheedle | Whoa is me!, the whoas of ... see woe » whoa | wholesale » whole-scale | wide » wild | wild awake see wide » wild | wildfire » wildflowers | will o' » willow | willow the wisp see will o' » willow | Winchell factor see wind chill » Winchell | wind chill » windshield | wind chill » Winchell | wind turban see turbine » turban | wind-nut see wing » wind | windfall » winfall | windshield factor see wind chill » windshield | winfall see windfall » winfall | wing » whim | wing » wind | wing » wink | wise tale see wives » wise | with flying collars see colors (colours) » collars | without further adieu see ado » adieu | without further to do see ado » to do | wives » wise | wives tail see tale » tail | woe » whoa | woe is » woeth | woeth me see woe is » woeth | wont » want | works like a champ see charm » champ | worth your wild see while » wild | worthwhile » worthwild | wrangle an invitation see wangle » wrangle | wreak » wreck | wreak » reek | wreck havoc see wreak » wreck | wreckless driving, wreckless driver see reckless » wreckless | wring » ring | wring the changes see ring » wring | wringer » ringer | wrought » rot | wrought » rod | wry » rye |


etymythology, mythetymology (W3)

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Hier sind die Irrtümer der Geschichte versammelt. Sicherlich geht es hier nicht um Wortgeschichten sondern um die falschen Geschichten der Geschichte. Aber viele Geschichten bieten auch interessante Hinweise zu damit zusammenhängenden Bezeichnungen.

Um mit dem Begriff "Hoax" zu beginnen: dieser soll eine Zusammenziehung von "hocus pocus" sein.

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Oder der "hoaxpert", eine Zusammenziehung von "hoax expert".

A hoax is a deceptive act or scheme that plays upon the credulity of others. Great hoaxes, like the moon hoax of 1835 and the Cardiff Giant, manage to create a sense of mystery and astonishment. They force people to question their assumptions, to wonder what is real and what is not. Not so great hoaxes usually manage to be, at the very least, amusing. The worst kind of hoaxes can actually cause serious damage to people's lives and finances.

In terms of deciding what to include in this site, I have relied upon a narrower, 1808 definition, taken from the Oxford English Dictionary, that describes hoaxing as "Contriving wonderful stories for the publick." The phrase 'for the publick' is the key part of this definition. Hoaxes, unlike mere practical jokes, are deceptive acts that are played out before a public audience. The larger the audience, the better.


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In der "Main Gallery: Before 1700" findet man z.B.:


BEFORE 1700: FEMALE POPES AND VEGETABLE LAMBS | Forgeries of the Medieval Church | Donation of Constantine | History of Crowland | Pope Joan | Medieval Travel Lies | Prester John | Marco Polo | Sir John Mandeville | Hi-Brazil | The Medieval Relic Trade | The Shroud of Turin | Waiting for the Apocalypse | Mother Shipton | Medieval Pranks and Tricks | The Ghostly Drummer of Tedworth | Renaissance Forgeries | Early Modern Museums of Hoaxes | The Cerne Abbas Giant


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1700-1799: RABBIT BABIES AND LYING STONES | The Native of Formosa | The Hoaxes of Jonathan Swift | Mary Toft and the Rabbit Babies | The Hoaxes of Benjamin Franklin | Silence Dogood | The Witch Trial at Mount Holly | The Death of Titan Leeds | Poor Richard's Enigmatical Prophecies | The Polly Baker Case | A Supplement to the Boston Independent Chronicle | Eighteenth-Century Literary Hoaxes | James Macpherson and the Ossianic Controversy | Thomas Chatterton and the Rowley Poems | De Situ Brittaniae | William Henry Ireland's Shakespeare Forgeries | The Great Chess Automaton | The Mystery of Madagascar | Linnaeus's Butterflies | Graham's Celestial Bed | The Patagonian Giants | The Blue Laws of Connecticut | The Duckbilled Platypus


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1800-1868: LUNAR BISON AND SOLAR ARMOR | The Berners Street Hoax | The Journal of Charles LeRaye | Redheffer's Perpetual Motion Machine | Princess Caraboo | The Great Stock Exchange Hoax of 1814 | Symzonia | Sawing the Island Off | The Nondescript | The Journal of a British Spy | Hoaxes of Edgar Allan Poe | Joice Heth | The Great Moon Hoax | Maria Monk | The Fortsas Bibliohoax | The Feejee Mermaid | The Southern Conspiracy to Confederate with Mexico | The Pictographs of Abbe Emmanuel Domenech | The Hopkins Hoax | A Petrified Man | The Miscegenation Hoax | The origins of the word 'miscegenation' | The Orgueil Meteorite | The Great Civil War Gold Hoax | The Calaveras Skull


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1869-1913: STONE GIANTS AND ANTLERED RABBITS | Index Hoaxorum: 1869-1913 | Spirit Photography | The Cardiff Giant | The Case of the Miraculous Bullet | The Central Park Zoo Escape | The Materialization of John Newbegin | "Leonainie" | Dr. Egerton Yorrick Davis | Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography | The Winsted Wild Man | The Great Duck Egg Fake | Sympsychography | The Great Wall of China Hoax | The Great Mammoth Hoax | First to the Pole | The Ghosts of Versailles | The Piltdown Man


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1914-1949: NEW JERSEY MARTIANS AND VAN GOGH'S EAR | A Tale of a Tub | The Cottingley Fairies | The Disumbrationist School of Art | The Ponzi Scheme | The Case of the Midwife Toad | Hugh Troy | Hugo N. Frye | Death in the Air | Theft of the Sacred Cod | Loch Ness Monster Hoaxes | The Surgeon's Photo | Fritz Kreisler | The Brown Lady of Raynham | Veterans of Future Wars | The Perambulating Skull | "The War of the Worlds" | Hitler Hoaxes


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1950-1976: NAKED ANIMALS AND SWISS SPAGHETTI TREES | The Great Monkey Hoax | Society for Indecency to Naked Animals | Bigfoot Hoaxes | The Third Eye | The Olympic Underwear Relay | The Swiss Spaghetti Harvest | The Virginia City Camel Race | Dick Tuck | Paul Is Dead | "Subways Are For Sleeping" | Report from Iron Mountain | Naked Came the Stranger | The Stone Age Tasaday


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1977-1989: AUSTRALIAN ICEBERGS AND COCKROACH PILLS | Alternative Three | The Sydney Iceberg | The Cloning of a Man | Lady Liberty on Lake Mendota | Rosie Ruiz | The Prediction of Tamara Rand | Jimmy's World | The Interfering Brassieres | The Hitler Diaries


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1990-1999: CROP CIRCLES AND CROSS-DRESSING KEN | Crop Circle Hoaxes | Doug and Dave | Operation Blackbird | The Cambridge Mandelbrot Set | The BMW Crop Circle | Milli Vanilli | Whatever Happened to Buckwheat? | Russia Sells Body of Lenin | Ghostwatch | Grungegate | Microsoft Buys the Catholic Church | Cross-Dressing Ken | The Sibuxiang Beast | Web Hoaxes of the 1990s | ourfirsttime.com | Ron's Angels | eBay auctions | Mahir Madness | Allegra Coleman | The Sokal Hoax |


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AFTER 2000: BONSAI KITTENS AND MONSTER CATS | The Top 10 Hoaxes of 2004 | The Rathergate memos, the Mini Cooper Autonomous Robot, Andy Kaufman Returns, and more! | The Onion Capitol-Dome Hoax | Post-9/11 Hoaxes | Touristguy | The Wingdings Prophecies | The NASA Satellite Photo | The Predictions of Nostradamus | The Lovenstein Institute IQ Report | Monkey Fishing | | Bonsai Kitten | Manbeef.com | Spud Server | Final Curtain | MalePregnancy.com | David Manning Film Critic | Snowball the Monster Cat | Kaycee Nicole Swenson | The Religion of the Jedi Knights | The Stone-Age Discoveries of Shinichi Fujimura | The Emulex Stockmarket Hoax | Death Hoaxes | The Final Farewell of Gabriel Garcia Marquez | Dead Pop Stars | Phony 9/11 Deaths | The Piltdown Chicken






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Das lat. "sic!" = "so", "ebenso", "wirklich so!" wird benutzt, um auf "falsche oder missverständliche Zitate" hinzuweisen. In manchen Texten erscheint es auch, als "erweitertes Ausrufezeichen", um auf besondere Textstellen hinzuweisen.

The Latin term "sic" is used to indicate that something written is intentionally left in the original form, which may be incorrect.
Example: She wrote, "They made there [sic] beds."

Die Wurzel ist ide. "*so-" = "this", "that" = "dies", "das".

Als Abkürzung kann "sic", "SIC", "S.I.C." für "specific inductive capacitance" oder auch für "Standard Industrial Classification" stehen.

Einige Webseiten im Netz tragen "Sic" als Überschrift für Sammlungen (sprachlicher) Kuriositäten. Eine davon ist "Verbatim - The Language Quarterly".

SIC! SIC! SIC! is a regular feature of every issue, in which we rely on readers to send us funny errors made in (thank goodness) other publications. (And those on signs, in form letters, etc., etc. We're capable of finding the funny errors in our own publication without help!) If you find a howler that you'd like to share, send it to either mailing address below or click here.

Die 77-seitige Sammlung von (sprachlichen) Fehlern enthält einige interessante Zitate aus Publikationen. Allerdings muss ich gestehen, dass ich bei vielen Beiträgen die Problematik nicht erkennen kann. Aber für Leser, die die englische Sprache gut beherrschen und die US-amerikanische Kultur besser kennen, dürften sich einige Aha-Effekte einstellen.
Etymologische Beiträge konnte ich jedoch keine entdecken.

Ein paar der Beispiele, die ich verstanden habe:

"See where the Pilgrims landed by bus." - Da hatten die ersten Siedler sicherlich eine anstrengende Busreise hinter sich, als Sie die amerikanische Küste erreichten.

"Berliner Park is the biggest park of its size in Central Ohio." - Es ist sicherlich schwierig, einen grösseren Park mit der gleichen Fläche zu finden - und dann auch noch ebenfalls mitten in Ohio.

"We consider pornography to be a public problem, and we feel it is an issue that demands a second look." - Da schaut man doch gerne genauer hin.

"Asked about social needs, Burdette said, 'Our safety net has a lot of holes in it.'" - Das haben Netze nun 'mal so an sich, auch wenn ich denke, dass das soziale Netz in den USA wirklich viele Löcher hat.

"We're going to pay now, or pay later. Now, we're paying later." - Will er nun wirklich später oder später gleich bezahlen?

"The Southeastern Georgia Alzheimer's Chapter presents a dinner cabaret, "A Night to Remember'" - Nun ja, ein schlechtes Gedächtnis hilft auch über vieles hinweg.

"There'll be plenty to eat: hot dogs, hamburgers, children under twelve, only a dollar." - Na denn guten Appetit.

"'No one expected it to be that high, but it's lower than what we expected,' ...". - Ja, auch die Erwartungen unterliegen einem ständigen Auf und Ab.

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spelling bee, bee
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Was macht die Buchstabierbiene? (W1)

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Das Logo des seit 1925 jährlich durchgeführten Buchstabierwettbewerbs in den USA spielt bewusst auf die fleissige Biene an. Aber der Ursprung des Wortes hat nichts mit dem Honigsammler zu tun. Jedenfalls bedeutet dieses amerikanische "bee" etwa "Nachbarschaftshilfe", "Nähkränzchen" und seit 1925 nahm es auch die Bedeutung von "Wettbewerb" im Besonderen und im Allgemeinen an.

Ursprünglich bezeichnete es die gegenseitige Hilfe in den Pionierzeiten Amerikas. Dabei ging es um Nähen oder sonstige gemeinsam ausführbare Hausarbeiten, aber auch insbesondere um Erntehilfe, bei der man innerhalb kurzer Zeit eine allein nicht zu bewältigende Arbeit vollbringen musste. Für das Jahr 1769 ist der Begriff "spinning bee" nachweisbar, im Jahr 1816 "husking bee" (wobei es vermutlich ums (gesellige) Maisschälen ging), 1827 "apple bee" und 1836 "logging bee". Mit der Zeit wurde es zunehmend im Sinne einer geselligen Zusammnkunft verstanden. Dabei kam es dann makabrerweise auch zu "hanging bee" (1873) und "lynching bee" (1879).

Nachdem das Buchstabieren der (auch sprachlich) zusammenwachsenden Nation im 19. Jh. zu einer Art Volkssport wurde (auf Basis eines Werks von "Noah Webster") erschien auch der Begriff "Spelling bee" 1875 zum ersten mal gedruckt. Zu diesem Zeitpunkt hatten die amerikanischen Zeitungen das Thema "Buchstabieren" aufgegriffen. Da das ursprüngliche "bee" schon in Vergessenheit geriet bezog man es schon auf die fleissige Biene. Erst spätere Nachforschungen förderten wieder das alte engl. "bee" zu Tage. Dabei ist bis heute nicht ganz geklärt, wo dieses herkommt.

Als Bezug vermutet man ein mengl. "bene" = "prayer" = "Andacht", "favor" = "Begünstigung". Damit höngt es mit dem noch zu findenden engl. "boon" = "Wohltat", "Segen", "Gefälligkeit" zusammen. Varianten davon sind engl. "been", "bean" = "voluntary help given by neighbors toward the accomplishment of a particular task".

Das amerik. "spelling bee" bedeutet also etwa "gemeinsames Buchstabieren zur gegenseitigen Stärkung der Sprachkompetenz".

Michael Quinion, der "weltweit Worten" nachspürt, führt noch weitere Beispiele für "bees" an:


There were many sorts of "bees" during the year. Several acquired their own fixed and standard names, such as "apple-bee" (picking and storing apples), "paring-bee" (peeling apples), "husking-bee" (husking ears of corn, later also a shucking bee or a corn-shucking bee), "knitting bee", "quilting-bee", and "raising-bee" (for barn raisings). These start to appear in print from the 1820s and are common by the middle of the century. Others handled sheep shearing, haymaking, threshing corn, and spinning wool.


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The National Spelling Bee was launched by the Louisville, Kentucky, Courier-Journal in 1925. With competitions, cash prizes, and a trip to the nation's capital, it was hoped the Bee would stimulate "general interest among pupils in a dull subject.” The Scripps Howard News Service took over the Bee in 1941. Over the years the national finals have grown from a mere 9 contestants to about 270. In 2005, 13-year-old Poway, Calif., eighth-grader Anurag Kashyap took home more than $28,000 in cash and prizes for correctly spelling appoggiatura. Here are the winning words that made past spellers into national champions.

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Und bei "infoplease" kann man die Liste der Favoriten seit 1925 finden:

1925 gladiolus | 1926 abrogate | 1927 luxuriance | 1928 albumen | 1929 asceticism | 1930 fracas | 1931 foulard | 1932 knack | 1933 propitiatory | 1934 deteriorating | 1935 intelligible | 1936 interning | 1937 promiscuous | 1938 sanitarium | 1939 canonical | 1940 therapy | 1941 initials | 1942 sacrilegious | 1943 NO BEE | 1944 NO BEE | 1945 NO BEE | 1946 semaphore | 1947 chlorophyll | 1948 psychiatry | 1949 dulcimer | 1950 haruspex | 1951 insouciant | 1952 vignette | 1953 soubrette | 1954 transept | 1955 custaceology | 1956 condominium | 1958 syllepsis | 1959 cacolet | 1960 troche | 1961 smaragdine | 1962 esquamulose | 1963 equipage | 1964 sycophant | 1965 eczema | 1966 ratoon | 1967 chihuahua | 1968 abalone | 1969 interlocutory | 1970 croissant | 1971 shalloon | 1972 macerate | 1973 vouchsafe | 1974 hydrophyte | 1975 incisor | 1976 narcolepsy | 1977 cambist | 1978 deification | 1979 maculature | 1980 elucubrate | 1981 sarcophagus | 1982 psoriasis | 1983 Purim | 1984 luge | 1985 milieu | 1986 odontalgia | 1987 staphylococci | 1988 elegiacal | 1989 spoliator | 1990 fibranne | 1991 antipyretic | 1992 lyceum | 1993 kamikaze | 1994 antediluvian | 1995 xanthosis | 1996 vivisepulture | 1997 euonym | 1998 chiaroscurist | 1999 logorrhea | 2000 demarche | 2001 succedaneum | 2002 prospicience | 2003 pococurante | 2004 autochthonous | 2005 appoggiatura


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What is an error in English?
The concept of language errors is a fuzzy one. I’ll leave to linguists the technical definitions. Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers. The aim of this site is to help you avoid low grades, lost employment opportunities, lost business, and titters of amusement at the way you write or speak.

(Die Erklärungen enthalten teilweise auch etymologische Hinweise.)
Am 13.12.2004 waren folgende Begriffe zu finden:

AM/PM * abject * about * absorbtion * accede/exceed * accent marks * access * accessory * accept/except * accidently * acronyms and apostrophes * acrossed * actual fact/actually * ad/add * adapt/adopt * administer/minister * adultry * advance/advanced * adverse/averse * advice/advise * adviser/advisor * affect/effect * affluence/effluence * agreeance/agreement * ahold/hold * ain’t * all * all goes well/augurs well * alliterate/illiterate * alls * allude/elude * allude/refer * allusion/illusion * almost * alot * already/all ready * alright * altar/alter * alterior * alternate/alternative * altogether/ all together * alumnus/alumni * amature * ambiguous/ambivalent * ambivalent/indifferent * American * amongst/among * amoral/immoral * amount/number * an historic * and also * anecdote/antidote * angel/angle * anxious/eager * any more * anytime * anyways * apart/a part * apostrophes * as far as * as follow * as per * aspect/respect * appraise/apprise * apropos/appropriate * artic * as time progressed * assure/ensure/insure * asterick * as of yet * ATM machine * athlete * athiest * aural/oral * auger/augur * avocation/vocation * awhile/a while * ax * axel/axle * backslash/slash * backward/backwards * barb wire, bob wire * bare/bear * basicly * bazaar/bizarre * beaurocracy * begs the question * behaviors * bemuse * beside/besides * better * between * between you and I * beyond the pail * bias/biased * bible * biweekly/semiweekly * blatant * bonafied * born out of * borrow/loan * both/each * boughten * bourgeois * bouyant * brand names * brang, brung * breath/breathe * bring/take * build off of * bumrush * butt naked * by/’bye/buy * cache/cachet * call the question * callous/callused * calm, cool, and collective * Calvary/cavalry * cannot/can not * canon/cannon * capital/capitol * caramel/carmel * carat/caret/carrot/karat * caring * Catch 22 * CD-ROM disk * ceasar * celibate/chaste * celtic * cement/concrete * center around * cents * chai tea * chaise longue * chemicals * Chicano/Latino/Hispanic * chuck/chunk * Church * cite/site/sight * cleanup/clean up * cliché/clichéd * click/clique * close/clothes * close proximity * coarse/course * collaborate/corroborate * Colombia/Columbia * colons/semicolons * commas * compare and contrast * compare to/compare with * complement/compliment * complementary/complimentary * comprised of * concensus * concerted effort * conflicted/conflicting feelings * confusionism * congradulations * continual/continuous * contrasts/contrasts with * conversate * core/corps/corpse * could care less * could of/should of/would of * council/counsel/consul * couple/couple of * credible/credulous * criteria/criterion * criticism * critique/criticize * crucifiction * currant/current * cut and dry * cut and paste/copy and paste * damped/dampened * data * decimate * deep-seeded * definate * defuse/diffuse * degrade/denigrate/downgrade * deja vu * democrat/democratic * depends * depreciate/deprecate * desert/dessert * device/devise * dialogue/discuss * dieties * differ/vary * different than * dilemma/difficulty * dire straights * disburse/disperse * disc/disk * discreet/discrete * discussed/disgust * disinterested/uninterested * disrespect * doctorial/doctoral * dominate/dominant * done/did * double negatives * doubt that/doubt whether/doubt if * doubtlessly/doubtless * dove/dived * downfall/drawback * drank/drunk * drastic/dramatic * drier/dryer * dribble/drivel * drive/disk * drug/dragged * dual/duel * duck tape * due to the fact that * dyeing/dying * e.g./i.e. * each * earth, moon * ecology/environment * ecstatic * ect. * -ed/-t * -ed/-ing * ei/ie * either * either are/either is * eighteen hundreds/nineteenth century * electrocute * elicit/illicit * ellipses * embaress * emergent/emergency * emigrate/immigrate * eminent/imminent/immanent * empathy/sympathy * emphasize on * end result * enormity/enormousness * enquire/inquire * ensure/insure * enthuse * envelop/envelope * envious/jealous * enviroment * epigram/epigraph/epitaph/epithet * epitomy * ethnic * every * everyday * everytime * evidence to * exact same * exalt/exult * excape/escape * exceptional/exceptionable * exhileration * exponential * expresso * expresses that/says that * factoid * fair/fare * farther/further * fastly * fatal/fateful * faze/phase * fearful/fearsome * febuary * 50’s * firey * first annual * fiscal/physical * fit the bill * flammable/inflammable * flaunt/flout * flesh out/flush out * floppy disk/hard disk * flounder/founder * foot/feet * footnotes/endnotes * for/fore/four * for all intensive purposes * for free * for one/for one thing * for sale/on sale * forbidding/foreboding/formidable * forceful/forcible/forced * forego/forgo * foresee/forsee * formally/formerly * forward * fortuitous/fortunate * foul/fowl * frankly * French dip with au jus * from . . . to * from the beginning of time * fulsome * -fuls/-ful * gaff/gaffe * gamut/gauntlet * gaurd * gender * Ghandi * gibe/jibe/jive * gig/jig * gild/guild * 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quantum leap * queue * quiet/quite * quote * quotation marks * racism * rack/wrack * ran/run * rapport * ratio * rationale/rationalization * ravaging/ravishing/ravenous * recreate * reactionary/reactive * real/really * realtor * reason because * rebelling/revolting * rebut/refute * recent/resent * redundancies * reeking havoc * regard/regards * regretfully/regrettably * reign/rein * religion * religion believes * reluctant/reticent * remuneration/renumeration * repel/repulse * resister/resistor * retch/wretch * reticent/hesitant * return back * revelant * revue/review * right of passage * Rio Grande River * risky/risqué * road to hoe * rob/steal * role/roll * root/rout/route * sacred/scared * sacreligious * safety deposit box * sail/sale/sell * salsa sauce * same difference * sarcastic/ironic * satellite * say/tell * schizophrenic * sci-fi * sea change * seam/seem * second of all * seen/saw * select/selected * self-worth * sense/since * sensual/sensuous * * service/serve * set/sit * setup/set up * shall/will * sherbert * Sierra Nevada Mountains * silicon/silicone * simplistic * single quotes * slight of hand * sluff off * snuck * so/very * so fun * social/societal * sojourn/journey * sometime/some time * somewhat of a * sooner * soup du jour of the day * sour grapes * spaded/spayed * stalactites/stalagmites * stationary/stationery * stereo * stomp * straightjacket * straight-laced * substance-free * substitute with * suffer with * suit/suite * summary/summery * supercede * supposably, supposingly * suppose to * surfing the Internet * take a different tact * taken back/taken aback * taught/taut * taunt/taut/tout * tenant/tenet * tender hooks * tentative * than/then * that/which * that kind * theirselves * them * they’re/their/there * therefor/therefore * there’s * these are them * these kind * these ones * they/their (singular) * think on * though/thought/through * throne/thrown * thusly * time period * times smaller * to/too/two * to home * today’s modern society * tolled/told * tongue and cheek * toward/towards * track home * tradegy * troop/troupe * try and * UFO * unconscience * unrest * upmost * use to * vague reference * various * vary/very * veil of tears * verb tense * verbage * verses/versus * very unique * vicious/viscous circle/cycle * video * vinegarette * viola/voila * vitae * volumptuous * warrantee/warranty * wary/weary/leery * wash * way * ways * weather/wether/whether * weather forecast calls for * Wensday * went/gone * were/where * wet your appetite * what * wheat * whereabouts are * where it’s at * whether/whether or not * whilst/while * whim and a prayer * whimp * whisky/whiskey * who/whom * who’s/whose * a whole ’nother * -wise * woman/women * World Wide Web * worse comes to worse * wreckless * writting * ya’ll * ye * yea/yeah/yay * yoke/yolk * your/you * your/you’re * you’ve got another thing coming

Supplementary Pages

(E6)(L2) http://www.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/nonerrors.html
Non-Errors Those usages people keep telling you are wrong but which are actually standard in English.

split infinitives * ending a sentence with a preposition * beginning a sentence with a conjunction * between vs. among * over vs. more than * forward vs. forwards * gender vs. sex * who vs. that * since vs. because * hopefully * momentarily * lend vs. loan * near miss * “none” singular vs. plural * scan vs. skim * regime vs. regimen * off of * gotten vs. got * till’ vs. ’til * teenage vs. teenaged * reference vs. cite * endquote vs. unquote * feeling bad * persuade vs. convince * preventive vs. preventative * entitled vs. titled * People are healthy; vegetables are healthful. * Dinner is done; people are finished. * Crops are raised; children are reared. * “You’ve got mail” should be “you have mail.” * it’s “cut the muster,” not “cut the mustard.” * it’s “carrot on a stick,” not “carrot or stick.” * spitting image * connoisseur

More errors Other strange and amusing word confusions
Commonly misspelled words.
The whole site on one page (ASCII text; the easiest option if you’re reading through all the entries in order)
List of commonly made suggestions. Check this before writing.
Sean Igo’s "Garbage In, Garbage Out: Errors Caused by Over-Reliance on Spelling Checkers"
Other Good Resources
American Heritage Book of English Usage
Worldwide Words: Investigating International English from a British Viewpoint
Daniel Kies’ Modern English Grammar
Jack Lynch’s Grammar and Style Notes
Charles Darling’s Guide to Grammar and Writing
Dr. NAD’s Prig Page
Ronald B. Standler’s Technical Writing Guide
Garbl’s Writing Resources On-Line
English as a Second Language Help Desk at Washington State University
Non-Sexist Language
WWWebster Dictionary (Merriam Webster)
Heteronyms
Antagonyms
Hazel Tank’s Word Lists - The Way Doctors Talk
Mindy McAdams’s Spelling Test
William Safire’s self-violating “Rules for Writers”
Paul Brians’ home page

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Word Myths

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Sprache: Englisch
Gebundene Ausgabe - 224 Seiten - Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum: 2. Dezember 2004
ISBN: 0195172841

Synopsis

Do you know that "posh" comes from an acronym meaning "port out, starboard home"? That "the whole nine yards" comes from (pick one) the length of a WWII gunner's belt; the amount of fabric needed to make a kilt; a sarcastic football expression? That Chicago is called "The Windy City" because of the bloviating habits of its politicians, and not the breeze off the lake?
If so, you need this book. David Wilton debunks the most persistently wrong word histories, and gives, to the best of our actual knowledge, the real stories behind these perennially mis-etymologized words. In addition, he explains why these wrong stories are created, disseminated, and persist, even after being corrected time and time again. What makes us cling to these stories, when the truth behind these words and phrases is available, for the most part, at any library or on the Internet?
Arranged by chapters, this book avoids a dry A-Z format. Chapters separate misetymologies by kind, including The Perils of Political Correctness (picnics have nothing to do with lynchings), Posh, Phat Pommies (the problems of bacronyming-the desire to make every word into an acronym), and CANOE (which stands for the Conspiracy to Attribute Nautical Origins to Everything). Word Myths corrects long-held and far-flung examples of wrong etymologies, without taking the fun out of etymology itself. It's the best of both worlds: not only do you learn the many wrong stories behind these words, you also learn why and how they are created-and what the real story is.


Oxford University Press, October 2004

Did you ever think that "Ring Around The Rosie" makes reference to the Black Death of the Middle Ages? Or that "the whole nine yards" refers to the length of a machinegun ammo belt on a WWII fighter plane? Or perhaps that Eskimos have 500 words for snow?
If so, then you have been taken in by a linguistic urban legend. Like classic urban legends, these linguistic legends are popular and pervasive. But instead of propagating cautionary tales about the dangers of modern life, linguistic urban folklore propagates stories and "facts" about language and words. These "facts" are usually false, but the legends contain an element of truth that reflect on us and our society.

Word Myths takes on these linguistic urban legends, not just debunking them, but also examining why they are told and what they tell us about ourselves. The book examines the patterns underlying these legends and comes to conclusions about such things as why we attach morbid tales to children's rhymes, why newspapers keep promulgating false origins for terms like the Windy City, or why so many words have false nautical origins. Word Myths is an entertaining, yet authoritative, look at these and other linguistic legends.

"Most everything you know about word and phrase origins is likely to be wrong, and David Wilton proves it with a light touch and a wealth of fascinating case histories. Absolutely everyone with an interest in language will love this book."

-- J.E. Lighter, Editor, Historical Dictionary of American Slang


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