Language Change Quiz

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  • Created on: 18-04-13 14:37
what is back formation?
a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it.
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what is an eponym?
A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named
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define initialism
An abbreviation consisting of initial letters pronounced separately
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what are idioms?
a speech form, an expression that cant be understood literally from the meanings of the individual parts
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define a cliche
a trite or obvious remark
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define affixation
the result of adding an affix to a root word e.g. 'Euphem(ism)'
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what is an eponym?

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A person after whom a discovery, invention, place, etc., is named

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define initialism

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what are idioms?

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define a cliche

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