英语词汇all my eye and betty martin的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

all my eye and Betty Martin. This saying may have originated when a British sailor, looking into a church in an Italian port, heard a beggar praying “An mihi, beate Martine” (“Ah, grant me, Blessed Martin”) and later told his shipmates that this was non- sense that sounded to him like “All my eye and Betty Martin.” Most authorities dismiss this theory summarily, especially be- cause Joe Miller’s Jests included the story, but St. Martin was the patron saint of beggars. One etymologist tells us that “no such Latin prayer is to be found in the formulary of the Catholic Church” and another claims to have in his possession “a book of old Italian cosmopolitan life . . . [that] mentions this prayer to St. Francis by beggars.” It seems likely that beggars would have recited such a prayer and so the story has some basis in fact, more at least than linguists have been willing to admit. Mean- while, there is no better identification of “Betty Martin.”

词汇	all my eye and betty martin
词源	all my eye and Betty Martin. This saying may have originated when a British sailor, looking into a church in an Italian port, heard a beggar praying “An mihi, beate Martine” (“Ah, grant me, Blessed Martin”) and later told his shipmates that this was non- sense that sounded to him like “All my eye and Betty Martin.” Most authorities dismiss this theory summarily, especially be- cause Joe Miller’s Jests included the story, but St. Martin was the patron saint of beggars. One etymologist tells us that “no such Latin prayer is to be found in the formulary of the Catholic Church” and another claims to have in his possession “a book of old Italian cosmopolitan life . . . [that] mentions this prayer to St. Francis by beggars.” It seems likely that beggars would have recited such a prayer and so the story has some basis in fact, more at least than linguists have been willing to admit. Mean- while, there is no better identification of “Betty Martin.”
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