英语词汇brogue的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	brogue
词源	brogue. One theory holds that the brogue long associated with the Irish derives from the Gaelic barrog, for “a wrestling hold”—Irish tongues were held by tradition and couldn’t speak any other way. A rival theory says that brogue comes from the heavy brogans (from the Gaelic brog, “shoe”) worn by Irish peasants, who usually spoke with what we now call a brogue.
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