英语词汇catchpenny的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

catchpenny. Back in 1824 London printer James Catnach sold at one penny each the “last speech by the condemned murder- ers” of a merchant named Weare. After the sheet sold out in a day, Catnach realized he had a good thing, and he headlined another penny paper WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN but ran the first two words together so that the banner read WEARE ALIVE AGAIN. Buyers of the Catnach penny paper punned on his name after discovering the cheap trick, referring to his paper as catchpenny, which soon came to mean any low-priced, fraudu- lent item. This is a good story, one of the best and earliest ex- amples of folk etymology. However, the fault in this ingenious yarn lies in the fact that catchpenny was used in the same sense, “any flimflam that might catch a penny,” 65 years before the very real Catnach ploy.

词汇	catchpenny
词源	catchpenny. Back in 1824 London printer James Catnach sold at one penny each the “last speech by the condemned murder- ers” of a merchant named Weare. After the sheet sold out in a day, Catnach realized he had a good thing, and he headlined another penny paper WE ARE ALIVE AGAIN but ran the first two words together so that the banner read WEARE ALIVE AGAIN. Buyers of the Catnach penny paper punned on his name after discovering the cheap trick, referring to his paper as catchpenny, which soon came to mean any low-priced, fraudu- lent item. This is a good story, one of the best and earliest ex- amples of folk etymology. However, the fault in this ingenious yarn lies in the fact that catchpenny was used in the same sense, “any flimflam that might catch a penny,” 65 years before the very real Catnach ploy.
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