词汇 | bristol |
词源 | Bristol. This city in Connecticut takes its name from its sister city in England. Bristol, England, in turn, got its name from the peculiar habit its residents had of tacking an “l” onto words ending in a vowel. This local dialectical eccentricity, which per- sists there to this day, changed the seaport’s name from Bris- towe to Bristol. |
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