英语词汇invented words的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

invented words. When Gelett Burgess published his Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed (1914), he offered scores of new words he had invented, none of which caught on and survive today. In fact, the only two of the hundred or so words Burgess coined over his long writing career that we still use are bromide and blurb. Hun- dreds of new words are invented every year, but few last more than months. One good example is Mark Twain, who, besides a number of winners, coined these losers, none of which is widely used today: disenthusem, humanbeingship, jumbulacious, men- tal telegraphy, perhapser, psychologizer, Shakesperiod, soda se- quester, type girl, uncledom, and vinegarishly.

词汇	invented words
词源	invented words. When Gelett Burgess published his Burgess Unabridged: A New Dictionary of Words You Have Always Needed (1914), he offered scores of new words he had invented, none of which caught on and survive today. In fact, the only two of the hundred or so words Burgess coined over his long writing career that we still use are bromide and blurb. Hun- dreds of new words are invented every year, but few last more than months. One good example is Mark Twain, who, besides a number of winners, coined these losers, none of which is widely used today: disenthusem, humanbeingship, jumbulacious, men- tal telegraphy, perhapser, psychologizer, Shakesperiod, soda se- quester, type girl, uncledom, and vinegarishly.
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