| 词组 | honeymoon |
| 释义 | honeymoon A curiosity noted with bemusement by Copperud 1970, 1980 is that some newspapers have regarded honeymoon as a word to be shunned in favor of wedding trip. We have evidence of this peculiar prejudice in our own files: • Betty White's Honeymoon Center ... was almost the subject for a Herald-Tribune resort-section article. The idea was given up when they couldn't dope a way to avoid using the word "honeymoon." That gazette has a rule against using the word in its editorial columns —Walter Winchell, syndicated column, 19 Apr. 1950 Bernstein 1971 also notes that some "conservative newspaper society pages" dislike honeymoon, and he traces the issue back to Bierce 1909, who asserted that such usage as "a week's honeymoon" was incorrect because the -moon in honeymoon means "month." There is good reason to believe, however, that the origins of the newspapers' objections to honeymoon may have nothing to do with Bierce's devotion to the etymological fallacy. Walter Winchell, in the column quoted above, also reported that the Herald-Tribune banned the word body. The implication is that honeymoon and body were felt to have risqué connotations offensive to the sensibilities of genteel readers. Fortunately, readers are not now quite as genteel as they once were, and we seriously doubt that there are any so prudish as to take offense at honeymoon. We also doubt that any current newspapers continue to ban this innocuous word, but even if a few still do, there is no reason why you should. |
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