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Flashcards by Laura Smith, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Laura Smith
over 4 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| Neologism | A newly coined word. eg. internet. |
| commonisation | When names extend from a specific case to become a household world. eg. Google |
| Acronyms | Words formed from the initials of other words. eg. Laser (light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation). |
| Initialisms | Words that are pronounced as strings of letters. eg. TBH (to be honest) |
| Compounding | A way of forming a new word by combining two or more free morphemes. they can be written as two words, one solid word or with a hyphen. eg. Ice Cream, Icecream, Ice-cream. |
| Shortening | A word formation process that produces abbreviated versions of longer words. eg. loony (lunatic) |
| Affixation | A morphological process that involves the addition of bound morphemes (or affixes) to a word stem. eg. unbelievable. |
| Blends | A word formation process resulting from the fusion of two or more elements. eg. vlog (video + log). |
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