"I'm a lexicographer. I make dictionaries. And my job as a lexicographer is to try to put all the words possible into the dictionary. My job is not to decide what a word is; that is your job...Words are great. We should have more of them. I want you to make as many new words as possible. And I'm going to tell you six ways that you can use to make new words in English."
- "Steal them from other languages" Borrowing
- "squishing two English words together" Compounding (e.g heartbroken)
- "kind of like compounding, but instead you use so much force when you squish the words together that some parts fall off." Blend words (e.g brunch)
- "You can also make words by changing how they operate. You take a word that acts as one part of speech, and you change it into another part of speech. Functional shift
- "You can take a word and you can kind of squish it down a little bit." Back formation (e.g editor to edit)
- "Another way to make words in English is to take the first letters of something and squish them together." abbreviation (e.g National Aeronautics and Space Administration becomes NASA.)
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