dixnary

英语

替代形式

• dic'snary, dicksnary, dixery, dixonary

词源

dictionary 之五音節發音（大概讀作 /ˈdɪksɪ.ʊˌnæːɹɪ/）的詞中音消失形式；比较 merlin ← 中古英語 merlioun 的演化。

发音

• (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/

名词

dixnary (複數 dixnaries)

1. (棄用) dictionary的發音拼寫。
   • [1696 [1676], Edward Young, “The difference of Writing”, 出自 Compleat English Scholar […] ‎^[1], twelfth版, London: Thomas Guy，第 78 頁:

     de-ſi-er deſire / dix-na-ry dictionary / di-viſ-yun diviſion

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）]

   • 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，第 2 頁:

     "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年2月11日, James Russell Lowell, “To Mrs. L. Stephen”, 出自 Charles Eliot Norton 編, Letters of James Russell Lowell‎^[2], 第 II 卷, New York: Harper & Brothers, 出版於 1894，第 433 頁:

     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年5月5日, A Constan' Rayder, “More Postcards: The Southmolton Division”, 出自 Devon And Exeter Gazette, 第 CXXXIII 卷, 第 18238 號, Exeter: G.F. Gratwick，第 11 頁:

     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年7月13日, Virginia Woolf, 編者Anne Olivier Bell, The diary of Virginia Woolf, 第 4 卷, New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 出版於 1980，第 116 頁:

     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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2. (印度) dictionary的拼寫錯誤。

使用说明

• 这个词所代表的三音节发音在这种拼写被证明之前是流行的（参见 Richard Snary），但到了 19 世纪，它在标准语音中已经不再使用；进一步的非标准演化为 dixery，仅在标准英语使用者的诙谐用法中得到证实。