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    Refudiate by Blending Refute and Repudiate

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    New words are regularly formed through common word formation processes such as affixation, acronyms, backformation, blending, clipping, and compounding. Affixation created the word "securitize" while acronyms include SCUBA and radar. Backformation formed the verb "burgle" from "burglar" and blending created words like "smog" and "mockumentary". Clipping reduced "application" to "app" and compounding combines roots to form words like "birdhouse" and "redneck". These processes demonstrate the creative capacity of language to form new words from old components.

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    New words are regularly formed through common word formation processes such as affixation, acronyms, backformation, blending, clipping, and compounding. Affixation created the word "securitize" while acronyms include SCUBA and radar. Backformation formed the verb "burgle" from "burglar" and blending created words like "smog" and "mockumentary". Clipping reduced "application" to "app" and compounding combines roots to form words like "birdhouse" and "redneck". These processes demonstrate the creative capacity of language to form new words from old components.

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    How Are New Words Formed

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    New words are regularly formed through common word formation processes such as affixation, acronyms, backformation, blending, clipping, and compounding. Affixation created the word "securitize" while acronyms include SCUBA and radar. Backformation formed the verb "burgle" from "burglar" and blending created words like "smog" and "mockumentary". Clipping reduced "application" to "app" and compounding combines roots to form words like "birdhouse" and "redneck". These processes demonstrate the creative capacity of language to form new words from old components.

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    Refudiate by Blending Refute and Repudiate

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    New words are regularly formed through common word formation processes such as affixation, acronyms, backformation, blending, clipping, and compounding. Affixation created the word "securitize" while acronyms include SCUBA and radar. Backformation formed the verb "burgle" from "burglar" and blending created words like "smog" and "mockumentary". Clipping reduced "application" to "app" and compounding combines roots to form words like "birdhouse" and "redneck". These processes demonstrate the creative capacity of language to form new words from old components.

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    How are new words formed?

    President Bush used affixation to unintentionally create the wordsecuritize (the process of
    making something secure). New words are regularly being formed through familiar word
    formation processes; below are a few examples of these processes, along with some words that
    result from their application.
    An acronym is formed out of the first letter of each word of a phrase. Its not uncommon to hear
    someone lol at a good joke (from LOL laugh out loud) or exclaim WTF when something
    unexpected
    happens. Scuba (Self-Contained Underwater
    Breathing
    Apparatus)
    and radar (RAdio Detection And Ranging) are examples of older acronyms that we dont
    necessarily recognize as such anymore.
    A backformation removes a part of the word that resembles a morpheme in order to coin a new
    word. For example, in the word burglar, English speakers misanalyzed the r as an agentive
    suffix (a suffix that indicates someone does something), similar to the r in writer. This process
    left us with the verb burgle, meaning steal. The Mitchell International Airport in Milwaukee
    has a lounge area just beyond security called the recombobulation area formed by
    backformation from the word discombobulate where the dis- was mistakenly taken to be a prefix
    and then replaced with the common prefix re-. The recombobulation area is a place where you
    can get yourself organized: put your shoes back on, put your laptop back into your bag, and so
    on.
    A blend combines
    two
    words
    to
    create
    a
    new
    word. Smog is
    a
    blend
    of smoke plus fog. Mockumentary combines mock and
    documentary. Jeggings are
    snugfitting leggings that look like jeans. Recently, Sarah Palin inadvertently created the word
    refudiate by blending refute and repudiate.
    Clipping is the reduction of a word into one of its component parts. The recently-coined
    word app meaning application for a mobile device is clipped from application.
    Compounding is the combining of two or more roots to make a new word, such
    as birdhouse or redneck (hillbilly). A recently-formed compound is pumphead: a person who
    has lost mental acuity after being attached to a heart-lung machine during heart surgery.
    Examples such as these illustrate the creative capacity of language. Our knowledge of
    morphology allows us to combine the pieces of old words to create something new.

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