英语词汇pango pango的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Pango Pango. Pango Pango should be the name of the Pacific Island Pago Pago, the chief harbor of American Samoa. 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 because several unknown 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 consonant.” 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	pango pango
词源	Pango Pango. Pango Pango should be the name of the Pacific Island Pago Pago, the chief harbor of American Samoa. 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 because several unknown 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 consonant.” 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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