英语词汇bottle的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

bottle. One persistent old joke has The War to Suppress Yan- kee Arrogance, one of the 20 or so Southern names for the Civil War recorded in these pages, arising from a dialect difference. It seems that three high-ranking Northern generals stomped into a Washington, D.C., bar and shouted, “We want a bottle right away!” A Southern spy overheard them and breathlessly reported to General P. G. T. Beauregard: “Top Union generals want a bottle right away!” Chivalrous Beauregard obliged, leav- ing the evening’s quadrille in Montgomery and proceeding to Charleston, South Carolina, where he gave them the bottle (or battle) of Fort Sumter.

词汇	bottle
词源	bottle. One persistent old joke has The War to Suppress Yan- kee Arrogance, one of the 20 or so Southern names for the Civil War recorded in these pages, arising from a dialect difference. It seems that three high-ranking Northern generals stomped into a Washington, D.C., bar and shouted, “We want a bottle right away!” A Southern spy overheard them and breathlessly reported to General P. G. T. Beauregard: “Top Union generals want a bottle right away!” Chivalrous Beauregard obliged, leav- ing the evening’s quadrille in Montgomery and proceeding to Charleston, South Carolina, where he gave them the bottle (or battle) of Fort Sumter.
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