| 词汇 | house |
| 词源 | house. Often pronounced haouse in Maine, Vermont, and other areas, just as round is pronounced raound and down is pronounced daown. “This vowel twisting was a direct inherit- ance from certain counties in England where it can still be not- ed, but, as Charles Edward Crane put it, to some extent our twisting has been deliberate—a sort of contemptuous effort of the Yankee to show he was not of the aristocracy, but good common folk.” |
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