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| Question | Answer |
| Loan Words | words taken from one language for use in another (e.g. chocolate, restaurant, pundit) anglicised or not |
| Eponym | when a word is also the name of the objects creator (e.g. Braille, Sandwich) |
| Acronym | a word made out of initial letters of a phrase |
| Initialisms | words created when each initial of a phrase is individually pronounced (CD, DVD, VCR) |
| Clipping | the creation of a new word through the shortening of another (e.g. advert, telly) |
| Conversion | when a word takes on another class, like text is now both a noun and a verb, as is Google |
| Compound | the combining of two words to create a new word (e.g. size-zero, carbon-footprint) |
| Blending | when components of two words are put together to create another (e.g. smog) |
| Proprietary Names | a name of one specific product becomes the colloquial name for all similar products (e.g tampax, hoover) |
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