2020-10-05
151214-1 ศัพท์ ที่มักสับสน ชุด G – Glamour & glamor
14 ธันวาคม 2015 15:45 น.
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Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง Glamour/glamor = ‘GLAM-er’
US Spelling = ‘Glamor’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Did You Know?
In the Middle Ages the meaning of grammar was not restricted tothe study of language,
but included learning in general.
Since almost all learning was couched in language not spoken or understood by the unschooled populace, it was commonly believed that such subjects as magic and astrology were included in this broad sense of grammar.
Scholars were often viewed with aweand more than a little suspicion by ordinary people.
This connection between grammar and magic was evident in a number of languages,
and in Scotland by the 18th century a form of grammar, altered to glamer or glamour,
meant “a magic spell or enchantment.”
As glamour passed into more extended English usage,
it came to mean “an elusive, mysteriously exciting attractiveness.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Word History
The History of 'Glamour'
The real magic of glamour is not in beauty or style or Hollywood sway.
The real magic of glamour—at least as far as the word's history goes—is in grammar.
In the Middle Ages, people were suspicious of students of “grammar,”
who were thought to practice the dark arts.
The word glamour comes to Englishfrom Scots, the English language as spoken in Scotland. In the early 1700s, the Scottish altered the English word grammar to create glamer or glamour; it meant"a magic spell."
The Scottish weren't the only ones to associate grammar with magic spells.
In classical antiquitythe Greek and Latin ancestors of the English word grammar were used in reference not only to the study of language but also to the study of literature.
In the medieval period, Latin grammatica and its outcomes in other languages were extended to include learning in general.
Since almost all learning was couched in a language not spoken or understood by the unschooled populace of Europe, it was commonly believed thatmystifying subjects such as magic and astrology were included in grammatica.
And scholars were consequently sometimes regarded with awe and more than a little suspicion. (One of those scholars was the legendary Faust, the necromancer and/or astrologer who sold his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.)
It wasn't until the mid-1800s that the word glamour started to separate from its magical connotations—though those connotations weren't, and still aren't, entirely gone.
Glamour in its modern senses—"an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness" and "alluring or fascinating attraction"—still has a bit of magicto it, though not usually of the suspicious variety.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language
Usage Note:
Many words, such as honor, vapor, and labor, are usually spelled with an -or ending in AmericanEnglish
but with an -our ending in British English.
The preferred spellingof glamour, however, is -our, making it an exception to the usual American practice.
The adjective is more often spelled glamorous in bothAmerican and British usage.
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression
Glamour – glamor
Glamour is the preferred(really the only) spelling of that which compels charm and induces romance and excitement:
“She secured a position in the theater which is loaded with glamour.”
“Joe longed for the glamour of becoming an astronaut.”
The verb form is spelled differently, however (Don’t glamorize your job),
and the adjectival form is glamorous:
“She is the most glamorous
woman in the entire film world.”
