Another popular etymology is the hypothetical Greek word ???????? " antimonos ", " against aloneness ", explained as " not found as metal ", or " not found unalloyed ".
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An article in " Great Leaders and National Issues of 1896 ", surveying famous presidential campaigns of the past, begins with an unsourced popular etymology of the origin of the caucus:
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It has nevertheless been claimed that " gay " stands for " Good As You ", but there is no evidence for this : it is a backronym created as popular etymology.
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Through popular etymology, it has been falsely claimed that Andr?Marie Amp�re used the symbol in his widely read publications and that people began calling the new shape " Amp�re's and ".
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According to a popular etymology, hick derives from the nickname " Old Hickory " for Andrew Jackson, one of the first Presidents of the United States to come from rural hard-scrabble roots.
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*Folk etymology, Fake etymology, Popular etymology & mdash; the distinction is fragile and could use some linguist attention . & # 9742; 16 : 53, Nov 19, 2004 ( UTC)
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Popular etymology includes a legend telling of an event that is tied to the construction of the main church, where an apprentice secretly climbs to the top of its steeple intending to place a cross of his own design.
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Popular etymology has it that a thousand Christians were martyred in Lichfield around 300 AD during the reign of Diocletian and that the name Lichfield actually means " field of the dead " ( see " lich " ).
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In popular etymology, the name has been connected with the German name for " axe " ( Bernese German " bieli " ), reflected in the two crossed axes in the city's coat of arms.
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He falls back to sleep, but is again woken up by Satan himself ( referred to with the popular etymology " Scaraoschi " ), who is infuriated by the loss of his servants, and slaps the soldier over the face.