2022-05-07 ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – G – glamour & glamor
2022-05-07
ศัพท์ น่าสับสน - Set – G – glamour & glamor
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Ref.: http://www.gotoknow.org/posts/598428 and 683358
Dictionary.com
ออกเสียง glamour/glamor = ‘GLAM-er’
US Spelling = ‘glamor’
ออกเสียง glamorous = “GLAM-er-uhs”
Dictionary of Problem Words and Expression:
glamour & glamor
Glamour is the preferred (really the only) spelling of that which compels
charm and induces romance and excitement:
“She secured a position in the theater which is loaded with glamour.”
“Joe longed for the glamour of becoming an astronaut.”
The verb form is spelled differently,
however (Don’t glamorize your job),
and the adjectival form is glamorous:
“She is the most glamorous woman in the entire film world.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Glamour
Did you know?
In the Middle Ages the meaning of grammar
was not restricted to the study of language,
but included learning in general.
Since almost all learning was couched in language
not spoken or understood by the unschooled populace,
it was commonly believed that such subjects
as magic and astrology were included
in this broad sense of grammar.
Scholars were often viewed with awe
and more than a little suspicion by ordinary people.
This connection between grammar and magic
was evident in a number of languages,
and in Scotland by the 18th century a form of grammar,
altered to glamer or glamour,
meant “a magic spell or enchantment.”
As glamour passed into more extended English usage,
it came to mean “an elusive, mysteriously exciting attractiveness.”
Merriam-Webster Dictionary:
Word History
The History of 'Glamour'
The real magic of glamour
is not in beauty or style or Hollywood sway.
The real magic of glamour
—at least as far as the word's history goes
—is in grammar.
In the Middle Ages, people were suspicious of students of “grammar,”
who were thought to practice the dark arts.
The word glamour comes to English from Scots,
the English language as spoken in Scotland.
In the early 1700s, the Scottish
altered the English word grammar to create glamer or glamour;
it meant "a magic spell."
The Scottish weren't the only ones
to associate grammar with magic spells.
In classical antiquity the Greek and Latin ancestors
of the English word grammar were used in reference not only
to the study of language but also to the study of literature.
In the medieval period,
Latin grammatica and its outcomes in other languages were
extended to include learning in general.
Since almost all learning was couched in a language
not spoken or understood by the unschooled populace of Europe,
it was commonly believed that mystifying subjects
such as magic and astrology were included in grammatica.
And scholars were consequently sometimes regarded with awe
and more than a little suspicion.
(One of those scholars was the legendary Faust,
the necromancer and/or astrologer who sold his soul
to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power.)
It wasn't until the mid-1800s that
the word glamour started to separate
from its magical connotations
—though those connotations weren't,
and still aren't, entirely gone.
Glamour in its modern senses
—"an exciting and often illusory and romantic attractiveness" and
"alluring or fascinating attraction"
—still has a bit of magic to it,
though not usually of the suspicious variety.
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language:
Usage Note:
Many words, such as honor, vapor, and labor,
are usually spelled with an -or ending in American English
but with an -our ending in British English.
The preferred spelling of glamour, however,
is -our, making it an exception to the usual American practice.
The adjective is more often spelled glamorous
in both American and British usage.
Farlex Trivia Dictionary:
Glamour
= First meant "magic, enchantment" or
= "art of contriving magic spells."
See also related terms for magic.
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