英语词汇pago pago的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Pago Pago. Pango Pango should be the name of this Pacific island, the chief harbor of American Samoa, and that, in fact, is the way the locals pronounce the name. An old story, which may be true, explains that the island is called Pago Pago be- cause missionaries transliterating the local speech into the Latin alphabet found that there were many sounds that had to be “represented by n in combination with a following conso- nant.” So many, in fact, that there weren’t enough n’s in their type fonts to enable them to set all such words in type. So they quite arbitrarily eliminated the n from some words— leaving us with Pago Pago instead of Pango Pango.

词汇	pago pago
词源	Pago Pago. Pango Pango should be the name of this Pacific island, the chief harbor of American Samoa, and that, in fact, is the way the locals pronounce the name. An old story, which may be true, explains that the island is called Pago Pago be- cause missionaries transliterating the local speech into the Latin alphabet found that there were many sounds that had to be “represented by n in combination with a following conso- nant.” So many, in fact, that there weren’t enough n’s in their type fonts to enable them to set all such words in type. So they quite arbitrarily eliminated the n from some words— leaving us with Pago Pago instead of Pango Pango.
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