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Robertson Cochrane's enjoyable article, Me and Empathy [XXI, 4], says, Why is it... that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
Why is it, as etymologist Walter Skeat asked frequently in the last century, that people will not hesitate to proffer publicly their guess-work on word origins and other language matters, when they would not similarly dare to explain the ordinary facts of botany and chemistry?
Guess-work on word origins is not and probably cannot be science, since the matter is not involved with well-established general theories.