| 词组 | exquisite |
| 释义 | exquisite In a 1926 issue of American Speech, we read the following admonition: • Another word by which social reputations rise and fall is exquisite. Here the ante-penultimate accent is the hall-mark of linguistic propriety; the penultimate accent gives the signal for the ejection to an outer social limbo. On his own head, therefore, be the fate of him who ventures to say that anything is exquis'-ite —John L. Haney, American Speech, April 1926 Similar advice, in less awesome tones, is offered by later usage writers. Half a century later, educated speakers of English remain unimpressed: second-syllable stress in exquisite is as widespread as initial stress. It is not clear what the basis of the objection to \\\\ek-'skwiz-ət\\\\ is; for what it may be worth, the word comes from Latin exquisitus, with both Ts long. |
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