英语词汇limericks的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

limericks. Poet Edward Lear’s (1812–88) nonsense verses were labeled learics by M. Russell, a Jesuit wit of the day, the new word a play on the poet’s name, on the fact that what he wrote weren’t dignified lyrics, and on the leering grins some such verses even then produced. It wasn’t until 52 years after Lear’s book was published that the one-stanza poems, by now immensely popular, were dubbed limericks. One theory has it that the name arose then because a popular contemporary song had a chorus that went, “We’ll all come up, come up to Limerick.” It seems that there was also a party game played at the time in which each guest would invent and recite a learic, the whole group singing the chorus about “coming up to Lim- erick” between recitations. This may be true, but it is just as likely that the learic became the limerick because people be- lieved that the verses were invented in Ireland, the land of poetry.

词汇	limericks
词源	limericks. Poet Edward Lear’s (1812–88) nonsense verses were labeled learics by M. Russell, a Jesuit wit of the day, the new word a play on the poet’s name, on the fact that what he wrote weren’t dignified lyrics, and on the leering grins some such verses even then produced. It wasn’t until 52 years after Lear’s book was published that the one-stanza poems, by now immensely popular, were dubbed limericks. One theory has it that the name arose then because a popular contemporary song had a chorus that went, “We’ll all come up, come up to Limerick.” It seems that there was also a party game played at the time in which each guest would invent and recite a learic, the whole group singing the chorus about “coming up to Lim- erick” between recitations. This may be true, but it is just as likely that the learic became the limerick because people be- lieved that the verses were invented in Ireland, the land of poetry.
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