2022-01-20 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – C – coarse & course

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2022-01-20

ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – C – coarse & course

แนะนำการใช้ ตามที่ส่วนใหญ่ใช้ แต่ละท้องถิ่น 

ความหมาย อาจผันแปร ตาม ตำแหน่ง/หน้าที่ ในประโยค

 

Dictionary.com:

ออกเสียง coarse & course = “KAWRS” or “KOHRS”

 

Common Errors in English Usage Dictionary

coarse & course

“Coarse” is always an adjective meaning “rough, crude.” 

Unfortunately, this spelling is often mistakenly used 

for a quiteifferent word, “course,” 

which can be either a verb or a noun (with several different meanings).

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

Choose the Right Synonym for coarse

Coarse, Vulgar, Gross, Obscene, Rebald

mean offensive to good taste or morals.

Coarse impliesroughness, rudeness, or crudeness of spirit, behavior, or language.  

found the coarse humor of coworkers offensive

Vulgar often implies boorishness or ill-breeding.  

a loud vulgar belch

Gross implies extreme coarseness and insensitiveness.  

gross eating habits

Obscene applies to anything strongly repulsive 

to the sense of decency and propriety especially in sexual matters.

          obscene language not allowed on the air

Rebald applies to what is amusingly or picturesquely vulgar or irreverent or mildly indecent.  

entertained the campers with ribald folk songs

 

Merriam-Webster Dictionary:

History and Etymology for course

Noun

Middle English cours, borrowed from Anglo-French cours, curs, 

going back to Latin cursus "action of running, charge, movement along a path, progress," from currere "to run, flow" + -tus, suffix of verbal action — more at CURRENT entry 1

 

NOTE: As pointed out by Michiel de Vaan 

(Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the Other Italic Languages, Leiden, 2008), the expected outcome of the verbal adjective in *-to- 

and the verbal noun in

 *-tū- would be *kostus < *korstus < *kr̥s-to-, kr̥s-tū-, 

from the verbal base *kr̥s- (> currere).

The attested form cursus for both the past participle 

and verbal noun reflects remodeling on the pattern of stems ending in a dental (as morsus from mordere "to bite," versus from vertere "to turn"). 

As generally in Latin, the verbal noun, 

where full grade of the root would be expected, 

has been supplanted by zero grade of the verbal adjective.

Verb

Middle English coursen "to pursue," derivative of cours COURSE entry 1

 

Collins COBUILD English Usage:

course

A course is a series of lessons or lectures on a particular subject. 

It usually includes reading and written work that a student has to do. 

You say that someone takes a course or does a course in a subject.

The department also offers a course in Opera Studies.

She took a course in Latin.

Be Careful!
Don't say that someone takes a course 'of' a subject.

In British English, the people who are taking a course 

are referred to as the people on the course.

There were about 200 people on the course.

In American English, they are also referred to as the people in the course.

 

How many are there in the course as a whole?

 

Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree:

course

= route or path; progress; duration; 

= a way of behaving: 

She chose the wisest course.

Not to be confused with:

coarse

=  lacking delicacy or refinement;

= crude; harsh; rough; boorish; gross: 

His language was coarse and unsuitable for children to hear.