- Reading
[Reading 词源字典]
- county town of Berkshire, Old English Readingum (c.900), "(Settlement of) the family or followers of a man called *Read."[Reading etymology, Reading origin, 英语词源]
- reading (n.)
- Old English ræding, "a reading, the act of reading" either silent or aloud, "a passage or lesson," verbal noun; see read (v.)). Meaning "interpretation" is from mid-14c. (in reference to dreams). Meaning "a form of a passage of text" is from 1550s; that of "a public event featuring reading aloud" is from 1787.