喜樂美語
  1. 1措辭、用字遣詞;(合約、標示上的)文字內容

    Wording is the exact choice of words used to say something — not the idea, but the words the idea is dressed in. Two sentences can mean almost the same thing and have very different wording: "You must pay by Friday" and "Please pay by Friday if you can" carry the same fact but a different feeling, and the difference is wording.

    It is almost always singular and uncountable, and it usually comes with 'the': the wording of a letter, the wording of a rule, the wording of a question. You talk about wording when the exact words matter — in contracts, laws, exam questions, apologies, job ads, signs. That is why the word so often appears with 'careful', 'exact', 'vague', 'change', 'check': 'the exact wording of the contract', 'we changed the wording to sound friendlier'.

    There is a small but important habit here: people say 'the wording' when they want to blame the words, not the person. If a boss says 'I don't like the wording of this email', they are saying the message is fine but the words feel wrong — too cold, too rude, too unclear. It is a polite way to ask for a .

    You can also use it for the words on a thing: the wording on the sign, the wording on the invitation. Here it means simply 'what it says, word for word'.

From the word’s history

word + -ing; word is from Middle English word, from Old English word.

word 加 -ing；word 源自古英文 word。

Wiktionary

組成word + -ing. The -ing here does not make a verb form — it makes a noun meaning 'the way this was done'. Same pattern as 'building' (a thing built), 'painting' (a thing painted), 'phrasing' (the way it was phrased).

同家族的字

  • phrasingsame -ing pattern, and a near-synonym: the way something is put into phrases
  • spellingsame -ing noun pattern: the way a word is spelled
  • wordyshares the base word 'word'

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wordingnoun/ˈwɜː(ɹ)dɪŋ/

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    A choice of words and the style in which they are used in a given context.

    • It is highly improbable that the drafter of the notice ever visualised the form that heavy vehicles of the future would take, but the comprehensive wording still covers modern types.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。