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5、indictionaryoftroublesomewords]Bryson’sdictionaryoftroublesomewords/BillBryson.p.cm.Originaltitle:ThePenguindictionaryoftroublesomewords.1.Englishlanguage—Usage—Dictionaries.I.Title:Dictionaryoftroublesomewords.II.Title.PE1460.B7852002423.1—dc2120010
6、52663DesignedbyNicolaFergusonISBN0-7679-1042-713579108642OCR’edtoplaintextandformattedbysittnbullfroma‘scanned-to-image’PDFfilefloatingonthenet.icontentsIntroductioniiiTroublesomeWords1Appendix:Punctuation131BibliographyandSuggestedReading137Glossary
7、139iiintroductionThephysicistRichardFeynmanonceremarkedthateverytimeacolleaguefromthehumanitiesdepartmentcomplainedthathisstudentscouldn’tspellacommonwordlikeseizeoraccommodate,Feynmanwantedtoreply,“Thentheremustbesomethingwrongwiththewayyouspellit.”
8、Thereissomethinginwhathesaid.Englishisamerryconfusionofquirksandirregulari-tiesthatoftenseemwillfullyatoddswithlogicandcommonsense.Thisisalanguagewherecleavecanmeantocutinhalfortoholdtwohalvestogether;wherethesimplewordsethas126meaningsasaverb,58asan
