This is a list of common contemporary false etymologies for English words.
The use of acronyms to create new words was nearly non-existent in English until the middle of the 20th century. Nearly all older words were formed in other ways. [27]
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God gesceop ða æt fruman twegen men, wer and wif
(then at the beginning, God created two human beings, man and woman) [93]
Middle English: from then anes 'the one (purpose') (from then, obsolete oblique form of the + ane 'one' + -s), altered by wrong division