英语词汇solecism的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

solecism. An error in grammar, or in the use of words, or a breach of etiquette is called a solecism. Soli, or Soloi, was an ancient Greek colony in the province of Cilicia, Asia Minor, far removed from Athens. Colonists who settled there devel- oped a dialect of their own that Athenian purists considered barbarous and uncouth, leading them to coin the word solo- ikos as a slang term for ignorant speech. From soloikos came the Greek noun soloikismos, “speaking incorrectly,” like an in- habitant of Soloi, which eventually, through the Latin soloecis- mus, made its entrance into English as solecism. In years to come, Yankee colonists would be criticized in much the same way by Englishmen, but the label Americanism has always been accepted with pride by Americans. Soli, located in what is now Turkey, was an important, prosperous port in the time of Alexander the Great. When Pompey rebuilt the city after it was destroyed by Tigranes in the Third Mithridatic War, he named it Pompeiopolis. Few of Soli’s ruins remain today, but solecism, originally slang itself, endures in all modern Europe- an languages as a remembrance of the way its citizens “ru- ined” Greek.

词汇	solecism
词源	solecism. An error in grammar, or in the use of words, or a breach of etiquette is called a solecism. Soli, or Soloi, was an ancient Greek colony in the province of Cilicia, Asia Minor, far removed from Athens. Colonists who settled there devel- oped a dialect of their own that Athenian purists considered barbarous and uncouth, leading them to coin the word solo- ikos as a slang term for ignorant speech. From soloikos came the Greek noun soloikismos, “speaking incorrectly,” like an in- habitant of Soloi, which eventually, through the Latin soloecis- mus, made its entrance into English as solecism. In years to come, Yankee colonists would be criticized in much the same way by Englishmen, but the label Americanism has always been accepted with pride by Americans. Soli, located in what is now Turkey, was an important, prosperous port in the time of Alexander the Great. When Pompey rebuilt the city after it was destroyed by Tigranes in the Third Mithridatic War, he named it Pompeiopolis. Few of Soli’s ruins remain today, but solecism, originally slang itself, endures in all modern Europe- an languages as a remembrance of the way its citizens “ru- ined” Greek.
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