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| Question | Answer |
| Loan Words | Words taken from one language to be used in another (e.g. chocolate, pundit) |
| Eponym | when a word is the name of the person who created the object (e.g. braille, sandwich) |
| Proprietary Names | a product named specifically by a company, that then becomes the common name for the same or similar products (e.g. hoover, tampax) |
| Initialisation | When each initial is pronounced to create a new word (e.g, CD, DVD) |
| Acronym | a word made out of a phrase's initials |
| Clipping | A new word produced by shortening an existing one |
| Blending | when two words are blended together to make a new one (e.g. smog) |
| Compounding | the combining of two separate words (e.g. size-zero, carbon-footprint) |
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