英语词汇coney island的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

Coney Island; coney. The Coney in Coney Island should real- ly be pronounced to rhyme with honey or money. The word derives from cony (or coney or cuny), meaning the adult long- earred rabbit (Lepus cunicula) after which the Brooklyn, New York community was named. However, cony, pronounced cun- ny, became a term for the female genitals in British slang, and proper Victorians stopped using the word, substituting rabbit, which previously had meant only the young of the cony spe- cies. The only trouble remaining was that cony appeared throughout the King James Bible, which had to be read aloud during church services. Proper Victorians solved this problem by changing the pronunciation of cony to coney (rhymes with boney), which it remains to this day in Coney Island as well as the Bible.

词汇	coney island
词源	Coney Island; coney. The Coney in Coney Island should real- ly be pronounced to rhyme with honey or money. The word derives from cony (or coney or cuny), meaning the adult long- earred rabbit (Lepus cunicula) after which the Brooklyn, New York community was named. However, cony, pronounced cun- ny, became a term for the female genitals in British slang, and proper Victorians stopped using the word, substituting rabbit, which previously had meant only the young of the cony spe- cies. The only trouble remaining was that cony appeared throughout the King James Bible, which had to be read aloud during church services. Proper Victorians solved this problem by changing the pronunciation of cony to coney (rhymes with boney), which it remains to this day in Coney Island as well as the Bible.
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