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Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary gram·o·phone ETYMOLOGY from Gramophone, a trademark DATE 1887 : phonograph English Etymology Gramophone 1887, trademark by German-born U.S. inventor Emil Berliner (1851-1929), an inversion of phonogram (1884) "the tracing made by a phonograph needle," coined from Gk. phone "voice, sound" (see fame) + gramma "something written." Berliner's machine used a flat disc and succeeded with the public. Edison's phonograph used a cylinder and did not. Despised by linguistic purists (Weekley calls gramophone "An atrocity formed by reversing phonogram") who tried to at least amend it to grammophone, it was replaced by record player after mid-1950s. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary-牛津双解-OALD7 gramophone gramo·phone / 5^rAmEfEun; NAmE -foun / noun(old-fashioned) = record player Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged gram·o·phone \-ˌfōn\ noun Etymology: from Gramophone, a trademark : phonograph |
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