Lexical Change

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Coinage
Creation of new words
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Neologisms
The new word itself
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Borrowing
Using words from other Languages
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Scientific Progress
Advances in medicine, science and technology caused many new words and phrases.
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Affixation
Adding a new prefix or suffix to an existing word
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Compounding
New words are created by combining two separated words to create one word.
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Blending
Two separate words are merged together.
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Conversion
Changing a word from one-words class to another
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Eponym
Some words come from names of people and places
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Clipping
Dropping of syllables e.g. demo
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Initialism
The first letter of each word is used to stand for the word e.g. FBI
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Acronyms
When the initials make a word e.g. UCAS
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Card 2

Front

Neologisms

Back

The new word itself

Card 3

Front

Borrowing

Back

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Card 4

Front

Scientific Progress

Back

Preview of the front of card 4

Card 5

Front

Affixation

Back

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