dixnary
英語[編輯]
替代形式[編輯]
詞源[編輯]
dictionary 之五音節發音（大概讀作 /ˈdɪksɪ.ʊˌnæːɹɪ/）的詞中音消失形式；比較 merlin ← 中古英語 merlioun 的演化。
發音[編輯]
- (標準英音) 國際音標(幫助)：/ˈdɪks(ə)nəɹi/, /ˈdɪks(ə)ɹi/
- (通用美式) 國際音標(幫助)：/ˈdɪks(ə)ˌnɛɹi/, /ˈdɪksəɹi/, /ˈdɪkˌsɛɹi/
- (早期現代英語) 國際音標(幫助)：/ˈdɪks(ʊ)ˌnæːɹɪ/, /ˈdɪks(ʊ)ˌnɛːɹɪ/
名詞[編輯]
dixnary (複數 dixnaries)
- (obsolete) dictionary的發音拼寫。
- 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 「Chiswick Mall」, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版於 1848, →OCLC，頁號 2:
- "MISS JEMIMA!" exclaimed Miss Pinkerton, in the largest capitals. "Are you in your senses? Replace the Dixonary in the closet, and never venture to take such a liberty in future.".
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- 1891 2月 11, James Russell Lowell, 「To Mrs. L. Stephen」, 出自 Charles Eliot Norton 編, Letters of James Russell Lowell[2], 卷 II, New York: Harper & Brothers, 出版於 1894，頁號 433:
- But it is well for him to get away from the Dixery. I hate to think of his giving his life for the lives of fellows of whom we were blessedly ignorant ; they were most of them dead or damned , and we hoped we were rid of 'em.
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- 1905 5月 5, A Constan' Rayder, 「More Postcards: The Southmolton Division」, 出自 Devon And Exeter Gazette, 卷 CXXXIII, 號 18238, Exeter: G.F. Gratwick，頁號 11:
- An' her tull'th me these yer Debben talk is a prapper langwige, an that all tha gentlevoks ust ta spaik like us do now, that "thicky" an "nort" wiz quite prapper wurds, and her zed her zeed "orts" in a ole dicksnary she wiz raydin.
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- 1932 7月 13, Virginia Woolf, 編者Anne Olivier Bell, The diary of Virginia Woolf, 卷 4, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 出版於 1980，頁號 116:
- Yes, but then the triumph of learning is that it leaves something done solidly for ever. Everybody knows now about dialect, owing to his dixery [Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary].
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- (印度) dictionary的拼寫錯誤。
使用說明[編輯]
- 這個詞所代表的三音節發音在這種拼寫被證明之前是流行的（參見 Richard Snary），但到了 19 世紀，它在標準語音中已經不再使用；進一步的非標準演化為 dixery，僅在標準英語使用者的詼諧用法中得到證實。[1][2]