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If we are to go by the evidence, we must recognise that the interpretation of dear by dear Lord or even by Lord at all, is due to the influence of popular etymology, which could make nothing of dear when it stood alone.
French names for foods are common: poulet frit fried chicken Kentucky; moules mussels; frites French fries; poutine French fries with curd cheese and gravy (named after a Colonel Poutine who was in charge of provisions at the Siege of Quebec in 1749; at the end, the only stores remaining were potatoes, cheese, and chicken stock; local folk etymology has it from putain, putanesca ); aubergine eggplant (the usual word in Britain); jarret de boeuf shin of beef; caribou a fortified sweet wine, etc.
While their Chinese etymology may be doubted, “that these rhymes are centuries old is not to be lightly dismissed.”
Even where there is more evidence of a world's usage a good guess at the etymology is about all that can be made.
Walter W. Skeat, surely one of the greatest linguists of all time and an outstanding innovator of his day (late 19th century), was often given to testy replies when a correspondent to Notes and Queries either disagreed with him or speculated on the etymology of a word without having first looked it up in one of Skeat's works or, if the alphabetic section had appeared, in the Oxford English Dictionary . He was often nasty; but toward the latter part of the 1890s the crust softened, and he mellowed a bit.