definition

Question 1

neologism

Answer 1

words created without any connections to existing old words or roots. eg. google, dog, blizzard, jam, slang words

Question 2

when is a word no longer a neologism

Answer 2

• when it is accepted by the public/ in a dictionary

- must be popular use in newspapers/novels for about 10 years

Question 3

compounds

Answer 3

• two words or phrases are joined together and neither word loses a portion.
• new-born, boyfriend, spreadsheet, upmarket, road-rage, think-tank, laptop, hard-drive, Facebook

Question 4

Blends

Answer 4

• also knows as portmanteau words

- created by combining parts of two words in such a way that both lose a portion.

Question 5

malware

Answer 5

malicious + software

Question 6

phubbing

Answer 6

phone + snubbing

Question 7

acronyms

Answer 7

-sound like words but they are never punctuated, NATO, MOOC, AIDS, CAT scanner, Soweto, radar, sonar, scuba

Question 8

abbreviations

Answer 8

2 types: initialism and clippings

Question 9

Initialism

Answer 9

contracted form of a phrase. each word is individually pronounced.
-UCT, HIV, BBC, HTTP

Question 10

Clippings

Answer 10

• created by removing a syllable or more from a word.
• telephone- phone
• aeroplane- plane
• taxi- taximeter
• fan- fanatic
• cab- cabiolet
• emails

Question 11

Conversions

Answer 11

• a new grammatical function for a word
• usually has ‘to’
• to chair
• to google

Question 12

Eponyms

Answer 12

• derived from names of people

- braille, pasteurize, sandwich, sadism, chauvinism, boycott, bloody Mary, mentor

Question 13

Toponym

Answer 13

• derived from names of places

- champagne, jeans (Genoa). denim (de Nimes), bedlam (St Mary of Bethlehem insane asylum), hamburger

Question 14

Affixation

Answer 14

• use of prefixes and suffixes

- Latin and Greek roots changed to English words

Question 15

Pejoration

Answer 15

• degeneration of words
• attitude
• crafty
• silly
• vulgar

Question 16

Amelioration

Answer 16

• elevation of words
• nice
• chancellor
• geek
• sick

Question 17

Gerundives

Answer 17

Latin verbs that end in -andus, -a, -um and -endus that are about obligation
now are English nouns mostly ending in -um or -a
-memorandum
-corringendum
-addendum
-agenda
-propoganda
-graduand