英语词汇elmer的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Elmer. Many given names derive from the last names of fa- mous persons. Elmer, which has come upon bad times recently, is the most surprising of them. Elmer was even more popular than Washington as a given name during the Revolution. Its origins have long been forgotten by most, but Elmer may have originally honored the brothers Ebenezer and Jonathan Elmer, Revolutionary War patriots from New Jersey—“pamphleteers, organizers of Revolutionary militia, surgeons, and officers in command of troops throughout the Revolution, members of Congress and fierce debators of a hundred stirring issues of their times.” Some experts disagree with the derivation, but no better explanation has been given. Said a New York Herald Trib- une editorial on January 18, 1935: “The name Elmer . . . has such an honorable genealogy that it is time for America’s count- less Elmers to stand up for it.”

词汇	elmer
词源	Elmer. Many given names derive from the last names of fa- mous persons. Elmer, which has come upon bad times recently, is the most surprising of them. Elmer was even more popular than Washington as a given name during the Revolution. Its origins have long been forgotten by most, but Elmer may have originally honored the brothers Ebenezer and Jonathan Elmer, Revolutionary War patriots from New Jersey—“pamphleteers, organizers of Revolutionary militia, surgeons, and officers in command of troops throughout the Revolution, members of Congress and fierce debators of a hundred stirring issues of their times.” Some experts disagree with the derivation, but no better explanation has been given. Said a New York Herald Trib- une editorial on January 18, 1935: “The name Elmer . . . has such an honorable genealogy that it is time for America’s count- less Elmers to stand up for it.”
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