Americanism的词源

英文词源

Americanism (n.)

1781, in reference to words or phrases distinct from British use, coined by John Witherspoon (1723-1794), president of Princeton College, from American + -ism. (American English "English language as spoken in the United States" is first recorded 1806, in Webster.) Americanism in the patriotic sense "attachment to the U.S." is attested from 1797, first found in the writings of Thomas Jefferson.

I have been not a little disappointed, and made suspicious of my own judgment, on seeing the Edinburgh Reviews, the ablest critics of the age, set their faces against the introduction of new words into the English language; they are particularly apprehensive that the writers of the United States will adulterate it. Certainly so great growing a population, spread over such an extent of country, with such a variety of climates, of productions, of arts, must enlarge their language, to make it answer its purpose of expressing all ideas, the new as well as the old. [Jefferson to John Waldo, Aug. 16, 1813]

中文词源

Americanism：美国式英语

; Americanism 美国式英语，美语用法

1781年新泽西学院(今普林斯顿大学)院长威瑟斯庞(John Witherspoon，1722—1794)撰写了-系列关于“美国的英语概况"的专题文章。在文章中他列举了美国人用词不当的若干例子，如用mad表示angry(生气的)，并杜撰了Americanism-词来指“美国式英语”或“美语用法"。

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