Neologisms

Question 1

Neologisms

Answer 1

New words that have been created or have occurred due to word-formation processes

new word formation

Question 2

ACRONYMS

Answer 2

Words that evolve after using the first letter in a series of words and pronouncing this as a word in its own right.
e.g. lol, scuba.

Question 3

ARCHAISM

Answer 3

Words no longer used in ‘everyday’ life.
e.g. coneys = rabbits (Coney Island),
want = (1) lack of - (2) desire (usage one is no longer common (i.e. for want of a pen),
thy, thee, thou, thine.

Question 4

BLENDS

Answer 4

Putting two words together to create a new word.

e.g. ‘bromance’.

Question 5

BORROWING

Answer 5

Borrowing words from other languages and incorporating them into everyday English.
e.g. boomerang, algebra, chocolate.

Question 6

COLLOCATIONS

Answer 6

Words within phrases that are closely associated with each other - when we hear one, we can ‘automatically’ provide the other. Can be cliches and colloquialisms.
e.g. ‘safe and sound’, blonde, brunette.
“blonde hair, blue eyes”

Question 7

COMMONISATION

Answer 7

Also called eponyms - development of common words from proper nouns.
e.g. ‘esky’, ‘thermos’, pavlova, lamingtons.

Question 8

COMPOUNDING

Answer 8

Creating new words by putting two free morphemes together.

e.g. blueberry, Facebook (‘olden day’ examples - nostril (nosu+thyr(e)l), window (vindr+auga)).

Question 9

CONTRACTIONS

Answer 9

Common in spoken and informal language - different from shortening as it is ‘squeezing’ two words together.
e.g. I’ll, won’t, they’re

Question 10

CONVERSION

Answer 10

Changing a word from one word class to another without adding suffixes.
e.g. email.

Question 11

INITIALISMS

Answer 11

Beginning letters in a sequence of words being said as a series of letters.
e.g. RSPCA, RSVP.

Question 12

SHORTENINGS

Answer 12

Also known as ‘reductions’. Dropping endings/beginnings of words to create a shorter word.
e.g. fridge, gym.