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Coining New Words
Coining New Words (5 points)
Prepare a 75-word response to each of the following processes for coining new words. In your responses, describe how each process is used in the formation of a new word (neologism), and list three examples of words from each process. Be sure that the examples are not used in the text.
1. Compounding
2. Acronym Formation
3. Foreign Word Borrowing
4. Clipping
5. Blending
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Compounding – It mainly involves coming up with a juxtaposition of two words that have been
in existence before. The words see the start if their life as separate entities. After that, one will
bring the two different words together and eventually get them hitched by making use of a
hyphen and finally become a single unit. The method mainly leads to the formation of nouns in
most cases compared to the other classes of words. Examples of compound words include
bailout, fiddlestick, and awe-inspiring.
Acronym Formation – Various long words wi...
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