2020-11-25
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด P – pedal & peddle
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ออกเสียง pedal & peddle = ‘PED-l’
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VOCAB BUILDER
What does pedal mean?
A pedal is a foot-operated lever that controls some kind of mechanism.
The most common kinds of pedals are those on a bicycle,
the brake pedal and gas pedal (accelerator) in a car,
and the pedals used inmusical instruments like pianos and organs.
Pedal can also be a verb meaning to operate a pedal,
as in You’d better pedal faster!
In American English, the past tense isspelled pedaled
and the continuous tense is spelled pedaling.
In British English, as with many other words,
the l is doubled: pedalled and pedalling.
Example:
When I was a kid, I liked to pedal my bike as fast as I could and then take my feet off the pedals and watch them keep spinning.
Where does pedal come from?
The first records of pedal come from the 1600s.
It comes from the Latin pedālis, meaning “of the feet,” from pēs, meaning “foot.”
The root pēs and its variants ped- and pedi- give us a lot of words related to feet,
such as pedestrian (someone who travels by foot) and pedicure.
There are a lot of different kinds of pedals,
but they all have at least one thing in common
—they’re made to be operated with the foot.
Most pedals are one of two types.
Some are levers that are used to turn a wheel.
The pedals on a bicycle power the chain wheel, which then turns the wheels.
Other types of pedals are more like switches:
when pressed with the foot, they control another mechanism.
The gas pedal in a car is called the gas pedal
because it controls the amount of fuel that goes to the engine
—the more fuel, the faster the car will go.
In a piano, the pedals are used to sustain a tone or create a muted effect. In organs, they’re used to control deep bass tones.
Foot-operated pedals can be hooked up to electric guitars
to allow the player to change the quality of the sound.
Sewing machines use a pedal
to control how rapidly the needle moves up and down.
Pedal should not be confused with the verb peddle
(meaning “to go from place to place to sell goods”),
which is pronounced exactly the same, or the noun petal
(as in a flower petal), which has almost the same pronunciation.
Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree
Pedal = a foot-operated lever:
Put the pedal to the metal.
Not to be confused with:
peddle – to carry around to sell;
to deal out or distribute: peddle newspapers
