| He never learnt Irish and his philological arguments tended to invoke specious homophones and improbable etymologies. |
| The card file to the left of where my father sat has definitions and etymologies of frequently used words, such as pleasure and play. |
| One could spend hours untangling the skeins of etymologies and historical allusions Kinsella has woven together in these poems. |
| The spuriousness of his Hebrew etymologies suggests, but does not prove, that he did not know Hebrew. |
| But the eminent Samoan chief and scholar Napoleone Tuiteleleapaga finds none of these etymologies convincing. |
| Every time I poke around in an area like this, I'm amazed by the range of nascent constructional folk etymologies that are out there. |
