给语言学习者：你不知道的9个英语冷知识_BEC初级作文

给语言学习者：你不知道的9个英语冷知识

7. The concept of “correct” spelling is fairly recent.

“正确”拼写是相当新近的概念。

Shakespeare, for example, was liberal in his spellings of words, often using multiple variants within a single text; his name itself has been spelt in many different ways over the centuries.

例如莎士比亚，在拼写单词就非常随意，常在同一文本中使用数种变体；数世纪以来，其名字也有多种不同的拼法。

8. One man is largely responsible for the differences between American and British spelling.

美式英语和英式英语拼写上的差异很大程度上因一人而起。

Noah Webster, whose name you still find on the front of many American dictionaries, was a patriotic man. Between 1783 and 1785, he produced three books on the English language for American schoolchildren. During his lifetime, 385 editions of his Speller were published. The modern US spelling of color was initially spelt in the British way, colour, but this changed in later editions.

在美国的许多词典封面上你还能找到一个人的名字，一位富有爱国心的美国人——诺亚·韦伯斯特。在1783至1785年间，韦伯斯特为美国的学龄儿童创作了三本关于英语的书籍。韦伯斯特一生中，其拼写教材出了385版。现代美式英语中“color（颜色）”一词起初是英式的拼写方式，但在后来的版本中，这些词的拼写方式发生了变化。

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