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A thread running through all these mistaken etymologies is that their supporters think that the only criterion in etymology is “if it sounds like x , then it must be derived from x .” That misconception can be seen on a grand scale in Isaac Mozeson's The Word: The Dictionary That Reveals the Hebrew Source of English, which purports to show that about 22,000 (!) English words are of Hebrew origin.
The Getty Conservation Institute in California recently sponsored a virtual-reality recreation of Queen Nefertari's tomb in Egypt, which purports to let cyberexplorers "look at the 3200-year-old wall paintings ...
All the SAT even purports to measure is likely first-year college grades.
Most stunning of all, however, was the Times' assertion that the Richard Nixon Library and Birthplace in Yorba Linda, which purports to be a serious research institution, "issued a statement saying the President was not anti-Semitic " [italics Chatterbox's].
But like so many protest movements, it partakes of the very vices it purports to critique.