The current Gaelic name Cill Tighearna ("Church of the Lord") is probably a corruption of an older form, both because the name formation is unusual in being dedicated to the Lord Himself, and because the form given in 1227 is Kiltierny, suggesting some kind of connection to Tigernach in Ireland.
The word Ozark is probably a corruption of Aux Arc, the name of a French trading post established in the region in the 1700s.
Despite his typically Bavarian name (Mr Pischetsrieder thinks it is probably a corruption of "bishop's wood-cutter") he is an exotic creature, who reads Latin and Greek.
Dating from 1787, it was built by a sugar planter, Valentine Blake ("Wallblake" is probably a corruption of his name).
Early explorers gave the area the name Acadia (French: Acadie), probably a corruption of the word used by the native Mi'kmaq.
The great ranches of the west were a reliable source of seasonal work, either herding cattle or, less glamorously, doing farm work: hobo is probably a corruption of "hoe boy".
The name Martinique is probably a corruption of the Indian name Madiana ("Island of Flowers") or Madinina ("Fertile Island with Luxuriant Vegetation"), as reputedly told to Christopher Columbus by the Caribs in 1502.
Websters, 1890: "The name is probably a corruption of Wels rarebit," Joseph Worcester Dictionary, 1860, said that the correct form was "rarebit Quotation from the Century Dictionary, the Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, by Captain Grose.
The term vaudeville, adopted in the United States from the Parisian boulevard theatre, is probably a corruption of vaux-de-vire, satirical songs in couplets, sung to popular airs in the 15th century in the Val-de-Vire (Vau-de-Vire), Normandy, France.
(The name was probably a corruption of "Blood Stained Bandits". ) Strothers accompanied himself on four-string banjo, an instrument upon which his skill was well regarded.
