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Lexie-Plays-Fast
@Lexie-Plays-Fast

This is, in fact, an eggcorn. The idea that people sit around making up origins for words is enthralling, so it's presented as a folk practice (by analogy to folk music; folk art).

In truth, the "folk" in "folk etymology" is simply a corruption of "fake".


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