英语词汇sliding pond的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

sliding pond. Is it pronounced “sliding pond” or “sliding pon?” That depends on where you come from in America. Many experts believe that the slides found in most playgrounds were first named sliding ponds because they reminded people of how they used to slide on the ice of ponds before playground slides were invented sometime in the 19th century. By this rea- soning sliding pon is simply a shortening of sliding pond. But some sliding pon advocates claim that pon here is the corrup- tion of any of a number of foreign words that could be applica- ble. Still another guess is that sliding pon comes from “sliding upon.” More American terms for sliding pond include sliding board, slide, sliding pot, and even chutey-chute (from the British chute, and probably obsolete today). Strangely enough, no ma- jor American dictionary lists sliding pond, or sliding pon, in- cluding A Dictionary of Americanisms and The Dictionary of American Slang—though the terms have been commonly used in some areas since early in this century and must have spread throughout the country by now in both speech and literature.

词汇	sliding pond
词源	sliding pond. Is it pronounced “sliding pond” or “sliding pon?” That depends on where you come from in America. Many experts believe that the slides found in most playgrounds were first named sliding ponds because they reminded people of how they used to slide on the ice of ponds before playground slides were invented sometime in the 19th century. By this rea- soning sliding pon is simply a shortening of sliding pond. But some sliding pon advocates claim that pon here is the corrup- tion of any of a number of foreign words that could be applica- ble. Still another guess is that sliding pon comes from “sliding upon.” More American terms for sliding pond include sliding board, slide, sliding pot, and even chutey-chute (from the British chute, and probably obsolete today). Strangely enough, no ma- jor American dictionary lists sliding pond, or sliding pon, in- cluding A Dictionary of Americanisms and The Dictionary of American Slang—though the terms have been commonly used in some areas since early in this century and must have spread throughout the country by now in both speech and literature.
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