2020-12-16
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด R – Rapport & report
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ออกเสียง Rapport = ‘ra-PAWR/POHR’
ออกเสียง Report = ‘ri-PAWRT’
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
report and rapport
Did You Know?
Report comes from the French verb reporter and
rapport comes from the French rapporter.
Both verbs mean "to bring back"
and can be traced back to the Latin verb portare,
meaning "to carry."
Rapporter also has the additional sense of "to report,"
which influenced the original English meaning of rapport
("an act or instance of reporting").
That sense of rapport dropped out of regular use
by the end of the 19th century.
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Usage Notes
‘Rapport’ vs. ‘Report’
An easygoing, detailed account
The noun rapport means “a friendly, harmonious relationship,”
especially one “characterized by agreement, mutual understanding, or empathy that makes communication possible or easy.”
Both 'report' and 'rapport'ultimately derive
from the Latin verb 'portare,' meaning “to carry.”
Sometimes the noun is qualified with an adjective
or placed in a context that evaluatesthe harmony of that relationship:
Already the most popular figure, his latest return was marked with a noticeable shift in his rapport with fans. Woods no longer just entertained, he galvanized them, and they returned the favor.— Joel Beall, GolfDigest.com, 14 Apr. 2019
President Barack Obama kept Mr. el-Sisi at a distance. But it was his second White House invitation from Mr. Trump, who has obviously established a rapport with him. At a meeting in Saudi Arabia in May 2017, the two lavished praise on each other, with Mr. Trump even declaring: “Love your shoes. Boy, those shoes.” — Mark Landler, The New York Times, 9 Apr. 2019
I was able to break down film with Coach Gattis, and we had a great rapport with each other. He went really in-depth and it was unlike any other meeting I’ve had. — Miller Moss, quoted in The Detroit News, 12 Apr. 2018
The two men have an easy rapport, and the conversation was unguarded, particularly when Mr. Powell was discussing himself rather than the policies of the central bank. — Binyamin Applebaum, The New York Times, 10 Jan. 2019
Rapport derives from French;
to be en rapport was to be on the same wavelength with another.
“…his grammar may have been imperfect, but still I have understood him; he and I are en rapport; and I say again, Edward, that old Pontifex was not only an able man, but one of the very ablest men I ever knew." — Samuel Butler, The Way of All Flesh, 1903
Report carries a number of senses as a noun
("common talk,"
"a usually detailed account or statement,"
"an explosive noise") and as a verb (too numerous to list).
Rapport retains its French pronunciation in English,
unlike report, in which the end –t is pronounced.
When the comedian Stephen Colbert hosted The Colbert Report, he encouraged viewers to pronounce the last word in the title like rapport, to match the pronunciation of his French-derived name.
Rapport and report share more than resemblance, however.
Both words derive from French verbs meaning “to bring back,”
deriving from the Latin verb portare, meaning “to carry.”
Rapport carried the original English meaning of “an act or instance of reporting,” a use that dropped out by the end of the 19th century; a report is an account or statement brought back (“read his report from the meeting”).
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Trend Watch
Rapport
The final Colbert Report led to some unusual dictionary research ...
When:
Lookups spiked on December 19, 2014.
Why:
The final episode of the Colbert Report brought about an unusual bit of dictionary research:
many people googled the phonetic spelling repore
– a search which leads to the Merriam-Webster entry for rapport
- which has a silent t, as it does in French.
Just as Stephen Colbert's show threw a wrench in the cable news formula, it threw a wrench into English pronunciation: playing on the French silent t in his name, he made Report rhyme with a faux-French pronunciation.
In fact, the English words report and rapport are similar words borrowed from French;
in modern French they are a single word spelled rapport.
The audio pronunciations most frequently listened to at Merriam-Webster.com include many foreign terms
such as niche and schadenfreude,
but the problem of silent terminal letters in French
always makes English speakers curious (and perhaps insecure).
This isn't the first time Colbert had a run-in with the dictionary.
In 2006, his coinage truthiness was named Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year by an online popular vote. He responded by gloating on his program, then complaining that the word wasn't yet entered in our dictionary.
Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary
Rapport
Many more people hear this word, meaning “affinity,” than read it,
judging by the popularity of various popular misspellings
such as "rapore” and “rapoire.”
If you get along really well with someone, the two of you have rapport.
