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Etymology, the study of word origins, often interests people otherwise uninterested in language.
Much as the press coverage of "government" is in large measure coverage of politics, so also do discussions of "language" get skewed toward issues of usage and etymology.
Weighing in on the "Have a nice day" debate (for a recent entry, click ); look up the etymology of "nice" in a good dictionary (I used Webster's New World ), and you'll find that the root meaning of the word is "stupid, foolish, ignorant."
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.
The evidence for a given dialect expression is often very meager, and a good guess at the etymology is about all that can be expected.