| 词组 | unsanitary, insanitary |
| 释义 | unsanitary, insanitary These synonyms were both coined at about the same time: unsanitary was first recorded in 1871, insanitary in 1874. In the early part of this century, the notion that unsanitary was "not a word" existed in the minds of some people. Their reasons for thinking so (as stated in letters to the editors of newspapers in which unsanitary had appeared) were somewhat variable, but they typically pointed out that unsanitary was not in the dictionary while insanitary was. In fact, both words were first entered in Webster 1909, but one was easier to find than the other. Because the prefix in- can have more than one meaning, insanitary was entered with a full definition. The meaning of unsanitary is self-evident, however, and for that reason it was not given a definition but was included instead in a list of self-explanatory words, printed in small type as a means of saving space. People still sometimes express uncertainty about which of these words is the "correct" one, but nobody seems to be writing letters to the editor about it anymore. They are both correct, they are both common, and they are both used in the same way: • ... in crowded, impoverished, and frightfully unsanitary slums —James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs, 1961 • ... unsanitary conditions, high prices for bad meat —Richard M. Levine, Harper's, March 1969 • ... were stored under insanitary conditions —Consumer Reports, September 1967 • Acres of moldy, insanitary buildings —Lewis Mum-ford, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 1954 |
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