Обсуждение:Сноб
Материал из Википедии — свободной энциклопедии
Убрал из статьи вот это: "(сокращение от лат. sine nobilis, букв. «без благородного происхождения»)". Байка, вошедшая, к сожалению, в некоторые словари. Dart evader 22:12, 8 декабря 2005 (UTC)
- Ну так отрази это в статье. Ынтересно же, откуда байка пошла, не томи душу :) --Winterheart 22:14, 8 декабря 2005 (UTC)
- А почему байка? -- MaxSemtalk 22:23, 8 декабря 2005 (UTC)
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- "We do know that "snob" first appeared in English around 1781 meaning, of all things, a shoemaker, or sometimes a shoemaker's apprentice. One authority (Hugh Rawson, in his book "Wicked Words") raises the possibility that "snob" may have begun as essentially the same word as "snub," which came, interestingly, from an Old Norse word meaning "to cut short." Perhaps, notes Rawson, the "snob" (shoemaker) was so called because he "snubbed" (cut) leather. Today, of course, snobs "snub," or cut short, the rest of us all the time.
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- Whatever its actual origin, by the late 18th century, "snob" had been picked up by university students in England, who used it to mean "townsman," as opposed to a "gownsman," or student. By the 1830s, "snob" was slang for an ostentatiously vulgar commoner, and in 1848 the novelist William Thackeray expanded the term yet further in his "Book of Snobs," where he used the term to denote a kind of grasping, pretentious social climber. And by the early 20th century, "snob" was being used in its modern sense to describe a person who derives satisfaction from disdaining those of lower social rank."
- Dart evader 22:30, 8 декабря 2005 (UTC)P.S. Совсем забыл про английскую Вики. Там тоже можно об этом прочитать :-))).
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Кстати, не переименовать ли в Снобизм? Dart evader 22:13, 8 декабря 2005 (UTC)
