2021-02-11 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด T – Theater & theatre

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2021-02-11

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด T – Theater & theatre

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ความหมาย อาจผันแปร ตาม ตำแหน่ง/หน้าที่ ในประโยค

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ออกเสียง Theater & theatre = ‘THEE-uh-ter’ or “THEEUH-‘

Dictionary.com

PRONUNCIATION NOTE FOR THEATER

Theater, an early Middle English borrowing from French,

originally had its primary stress on the second syllable: [French tey-AH-truh].

As with many early French borrowings (beauty, carriage, marriage),

the stress moved to the first syllable,

in conformity with a common English pattern of stress,

and this pattern remains the standard one for theater today: [THEE-uh-ter].

A pronunciation with stress on the secondsyllable and the vowel [ey],

as [thee-EY -ter] or sometimes [THEE-ey-ter] is characteristic

chiefly of a nonstandard regional pronunciationin the United States

that may be perceived as uneducated.

Dictionary of Problem Words and Expressions

Theater & theatre

These are variant spellings of a word derived from a Greek term

meaning “to watch,” “to lookat.”

Theater is much the more common spelling,

although some writers and some persons in theatrical professions

seem to feel that theatre has more appealand dignity:

“Let’s go to the theater (theatre).”

“Medical students spend much time in the operating theater(theatre).”

“The theater (theatre)

of war stretched across the entire eastern half of the country.”