2021-01-07 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – Self-worth & self-esteem

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2021-01-07

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด S – Self-worth & self-esteem

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Dictionary.com

ออกเสียง Self = ‘SELF’

ออกเสียง worth = ‘WURTH’

ออกเสียง esteem = ‘ih-STEEM’

Common Errors In English Usage Dictionary

Self-worth & self-esteem

To say that a person has a low sense of self-worthmakes sense,

though it’s inelegant;

but people commonly truncate the phrase,

saying instead, “He has low self-worth.”

This would literally mean that he isn’t worth much

rather than that he has a low opinion of himself.

“Self-esteem” sounds much more literate.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

worth

WORD CHOICE: worth & value

Worth can be used as a noun

to talk about how much money something is worth,

but it is more usual to use value:

The value of the property has doubled.

Worth and value can be used as nouns

to talk about how good or usefulsomeone or something is:

He has demonstrated his worth/value to the company.

Collins COBUILD English Usage

Worth can be a preposition or a noun.

1. used as a preposition

If something is worth an amount of money,

that is the amount you would get for it if you sold it.

His yacht is worth $1.7 million.

They own a two-bedroom house worth £350,000.

Be Careful!

Worth is not a verb.

Don't say 'His yacht worths $1.7 million'.

2. used as a noun

You use worth as a noun after words like pounds or dollars

to show how much money you would get for an amountof something

if you sold it.

I can't believe we're arguing over fifty pence worth of chocolate.

Twelve million pounds worth of gold and jewels were stolen.

Don't talk about the 'worth' of something that someone owns.

Don't say, for example, 'The worth of his house has greatly increased'.

You say 'The value of his house has greatly increased'.

What will happen to the value of my car?

The value of the land is now over £1 million.

Random House Kernerman Webster's College Dictionary,

self-

a combining form of self,

appearing in various parts of speech,

usu. with the implied notion that

the agent and object or recipient

of a given transitive predicate are identical

(self-control; self-government; self-help; self-portrait),

or that the subject of a given predicate acts

or is effective without

assistance (self-adhesive; self-loading; self-study).