[Fictionary] A Dictionary of Verbal Corruptions

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

This looks like something the fictionariat would like: a 650-page
dictionary of folk etymology from 1882, available in full online.

https://archive.org/details/cu31924027422405
Folk-etymology; a dictionary of verbal corruptions or words perverted in
form or meaning, by false derivation or mistaken analogy
by Abram Smythe Palmer

The machine-generated transcription of the book is pretty sloppy, but
mostly readable.

I found this while googlin' around to find out if the Danish "pindsvin"
(hedgehog) really means "pin pig" the way it looks like it should. And it
does! But I further learned that the English "hedgehog" may be a corruption
of "edgehog", i.e. pin pig. PIN PIG!
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