| 词组 | racket, racquet |
| 释义 | racket, racquet These spelling variants are both established in reputable use: • ... hoisted his racket to his shoulder like a baseball bat —John Updike, Couples, 1968 • ... I grabbed a tennis racquet hanging in its press — E. L. Doctorow, Loon Lake, 1979 Racket is appreciably the more common of the two except when the reference is to the game racquets, which in American English is usually spelled as we have spelled it here: • Racquets today is almost as aristocratic a game as court tennis —Dick Miller et al., Town & Country, May 1984 The British, however, prefer rackets for the name of the game: • ... recorded the double in the ... tennis and rackets competitions at Manchester yesterday —The Times (London), 29 Oct. 1973 The British preference may be partly attributable to the opinions of such commentators as Partridge 1942 and Gowers in Fowler 1965, both of whom treat racquet as a spelling error. Racquet is, in fact, something of a strange hybrid, combining the English racket with the French raquette. But its use dates back to the early 19th century, and it has long been recognized as a standard variant in both British and American dictionaries. |
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