| 词组 | flautist, flutist |
| 释义 | flautist, flutist A musician who plays the flute can be called either a flautist or a flutist. Flutist is the older word, first recorded in 1603, and is the one preferred by usage commentators. Flautist is of Italian derivation. The earliest record of its occurrence in English is from 1860, when Hawthorne used it in The Marble Faun. Fowler 1926 was the first to express disapproval of it, essentially because he found it pretentious. Despite his objections, however, flautist has become the preferred term in British English. In American English, both words are used but flutist is by far the more common choice. |
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