英语词汇handbook的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

handbook. Dr. Richard French, the philologist who first suggested the great Oxford English Dictionary in 1857, called handbook “an ugly unnecessary word . . . scarcely . . . ten or fifteen years old,” a very poor substitute for the Latin “manu- al.” Actually, the handy handbook had reentered the language after a long absence. It dated back to the Anglo-Saxon hand- boc, used before Alfred the Great. Besides its standard En- glish meaning, a handbook is American slang for a place where bets are made away from the racetrack, which gives us the terms bookie and bookmaker, both first recorded in the 1880s. Handbook was suggested by the small concealable notebooks that bookies carry for secrecy and convenience. In England, a bookmaker is called a turf accountant or com- mission agent.

词汇	handbook
词源	handbook. Dr. Richard French, the philologist who first suggested the great Oxford English Dictionary in 1857, called handbook “an ugly unnecessary word . . . scarcely . . . ten or fifteen years old,” a very poor substitute for the Latin “manu- al.” Actually, the handy handbook had reentered the language after a long absence. It dated back to the Anglo-Saxon hand- boc, used before Alfred the Great. Besides its standard En- glish meaning, a handbook is American slang for a place where bets are made away from the racetrack, which gives us the terms bookie and bookmaker, both first recorded in the 1880s. Handbook was suggested by the small concealable notebooks that bookies carry for secrecy and convenience. In England, a bookmaker is called a turf accountant or com- mission agent.
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