2021-05-15 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – award & reward

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2021-05-15

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน ชุด – A – award & reward

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ออกเสียง award = ‘uh-WAWRD’

ออกเสียง reward = ‘ri-WAWRD’

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SYNONYMSTUDY FOR REWARD

Reward, prize, recompense

implysomething given in return for good.

A reward issomething given or done in return for good

(or, more rarely, evil) received;

it mayrefer to something abstract or concrete:

a $50 reward; Virtue is its own reward.

Prize refers to something concrete offered as a reward ofmerit,

or to be contested for and given to the winner:

to win a prize for an essay.

A recompense issomething given or done,

whether as rewardor punishment, for acts performed, servicesrendered, etc.;

 or it may besomething given in compensation for loss or injury suffered, etc.:

Renown was his principal recompense for years of hard work.

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The Stories Behind The Name “AWARD”

FromThe Grammys To The Oscars

Awards seasonkicks off each year in November

with the Emmy Awards

and culminateswith the Academy Awards in February.

(The Tonys are a summertime outlier.)

Rare talents can sometimes win

all fourof the major performing arts awards

—an almost mythic achievement known colloquially as an EGOT:

an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony.

There are relativelyfew EGOT recipients,

butthey include

Mel Brooks, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, and John Legend.

EGOTs aside, each award ceremony

appeals toits own audience of devotees.

Are you familiar with how your favorite award show got its name?

The Oscars

The Academy Awards(a.k.a. The Oscars)

are awardedeach year

bythe Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS),

an invitation-only

professional organization of film industry heavyweights.

The Oscar is its casual nickname;

the official nameof the golden statuette

isthe Academy Award of Merit.

They were first awarded in 1929,

first broadcaston radio the following year in 1930,

and first televised in 1953.

The first awardshow ran a total of 15 minutes,

which is a far cry from

the hours-longendurance marathons they’ve become.

The statue that everyone hopes to take home

was modeled after Mexican actor, film director, and screenwriter,

Emilio “El Indio” Fernández,

best known for directing María Candelaria.

The statue’s nickname, Oscar,

has conflicting origin stories,

but the most popular narrative credits Margaret Herrick,

Academy Award librarianand eventual

Directorof the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

Allegedly, Herrick claimed in 1931

that the statuette looked “like her Uncle Oscar.”

The Tonys

The Tony Awards are presented by

theAmerican Theater Wing, a performing arts advocacy group,

and The Broadway League, a trade association for the theater industry,

to celebrateexceptional talents in the world of theater.

Started in 1947, the award’s official name

isthe Antoinette Perry Award for Excellence in Broadway Theatre.

The awarditself is a medallion,

embossedon one side with the traditional comedy/tragedy masks,

and marked on the opposing side with the recipient’s name,

award category, production, and award year.

(Originally, the reverse side depicted the image of the award’s namesake, Antoinette Perry, co-founder of the American Theater Wing,

whose nickname was Tony.)

The Emmy Awards

The Primetime Emmy Awards,

for those who have trouble keeping track, are the ones for television.

The annual awardis administered

bythe Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (ATAS),

and the statuette depicts

a winged woman holding what appears to be a gyroscope

but is, in fact, an atom.

The trophy was designed by TV engineer Louis McManus in 1948,

who famously modeled the trophy after his wife.

It’s rumoredthat ATAS founder Syd Cassyd

firstthought about calling the award the Ike,

a nicknamefor the television iconoscope tube.

However, Ike was also the commonly used nickname

forwar hero and future president Dwight D. Eisenhower.

So, an alternatename, the Immy, after the image orthicon tube,

was suggested byformer Academy Director, Henry Lubcke.

The name was later feminized to Emmy

tomatch the statuette’s female image.

Grammy Awards

The youngestof the bunch,

the Grammy Awards are presented each year by the Recording Academy,

formerlythe National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (NARAS).

Founded asa byproduct of a 1950s project

to awardHollywood Walk of Fame stars

todeserving members of the recording industry,

the Grammys were created to be the music’s answer

tothe Oscars and the Emmys,

and they honormusical achievements from the preceding year.

NARAS first considered calling the award

The Eddie, afterphonograph inventor Thomas Edison.

Butthey opted instead to name the award after the gramophone,

inventedby Emile Berliner, shortening it to the familiar Grammy.

The award itself isa gold-plated statuette of Berliner’s iconic record player.

Fun fact:

Sincethe personalized trophies

don’tget doled out until after the award ceremony,

the trophies we seeduring the Grammys are dummies

they reuse each year.

At least they’ve maintainedtheir luster.

Collins COBUILD English Usage

Reward – award

Both these nouns are used to refer to

something you receive

because you have done something useful or good.

1. 'reward'

A reward is usually something valuable, such as money.

Hearst announced a reward of £ 50,000 for information.

2. 'award'

An award is something such as a prize, certificate, or medal.

The only award he had ever won was the Toplady Prize for Divinity.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Choose the Right Synonym for award

Verb

GRANT, CONCEDE, VOUCHSAFE, ACCORD, AWARD

mean to give as a favor or a right.

GRANT implies giving to a claimant or petitioner

something that could be withheld.

granted them a new hearing

CONCEDE implies yielding something reluctantly

in response to a rightful or compellingclaim.

even her critics concede she can be charming

VOUCHSAFE implies granting something

as a courtesy or an act of gracious condescension.

vouchsafed the secret to only a few chosen disciples

ACCORD implies giving to another what is due or proper.

accorded all the honors befitting a head of state

AWARD implies givingwhat is deserved or merited

usually after a careful weighing of pertinent factors.

awarded the company a huge defense contract

Dictionary of Problem Words in English

award& reward

Award implies a decision or something given as a prize.

Reward usually refers to something

givenin recompense for a good deed or for merit.

“Jack received an award for his flower display.”

“The fireman received a reward for saving the child’s life.”