英语词汇cablegram的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cablegram; telegram. First used in 1868, the word cablegram initially met with some resistance, scholars condemning it as a hybrid derived from Latin (“cable”) and Greek (“gram”). Use the all-Greek calogram instead of the New York City-born monster, they suggested, but few agreed and the coinage proved durable. Something of the same happened with the earlier coinage telegram, which we know was invented by a friend of a man who wrote a letter to the Albany Evening Journal on April 6, 1852, asking that it be adopted in place of the clumsy “tele- graphic dispatch” used at the time. Grammarians pointed out that telegram was not properly formed from its Greek elements and suggested “telegraphemie” instead, but the “barbaric new Yankee word” won out in the test of time. Such improperly formed words are of course common in English and there is a liberal supply of hybrids like cablegram, including such com- mon words as because, dentist, grateful, starvation, talkative, and parliament.

词汇	cablegram
词源	cablegram; telegram. First used in 1868, the word cablegram initially met with some resistance, scholars condemning it as a hybrid derived from Latin (“cable”) and Greek (“gram”). Use the all-Greek calogram instead of the New York City-born monster, they suggested, but few agreed and the coinage proved durable. Something of the same happened with the earlier coinage telegram, which we know was invented by a friend of a man who wrote a letter to the Albany Evening Journal on April 6, 1852, asking that it be adopted in place of the clumsy “tele- graphic dispatch” used at the time. Grammarians pointed out that telegram was not properly formed from its Greek elements and suggested “telegraphemie” instead, but the “barbaric new Yankee word” won out in the test of time. Such improperly formed words are of course common in English and there is a liberal supply of hybrids like cablegram, including such com- mon words as because, dentist, grateful, starvation, talkative, and parliament.
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