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  2. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase. Clipping is also different from back-formation, which proceeds by (pseudo-)morpheme rather than segment, and where the new word may differ in sense and word class from its source. [2]

  3. Clipped compound - Wikipedia

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    In linguistics, a clipped compound is a word produced from a compound word by reducing its parts while retaining the meaning of the original compound. [1] It is a special case of word formation called clipping. Clipped compounds are common in various slang and jargon vocabularies. [1] A clipped compound word is actually a type of blend word ...

  4. Clipping (phonetics) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping with vowel reduction also occurs in many unstressed syllables. Because of the variability of vowel length, the ː diacritic is sometimes omitted in IPA transcriptions of English and so words such as dawn or lead are transcribed as /dɔn/ and /lid/, instead of the more usual /dɔːn/ and /liːd/. Neither type of transcription is more ...

  5. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    Back-formation is either the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new "word") by removing actual or supposed affixes, or a neologism formed by such a process. Back-formations are shortened words created from longer words, thus back-formations may be viewed as a sub-type of clipping.

  6. Diminutive - Wikipedia

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    A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a ... the alteration of meaning is often conveyed through clipping, making the words shorter and ...

  7. Game of the Day: Just Words - AOL

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    Just Words is a word game for one or two players where you scores points by making new words using singularly lettered tiles on a board, bringing you the classic SCRABBLE experience, but with a twist!

  8. Truth behind the Donald Trump quote from 1998 that's rapidly ...

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    Credit: The Other 98%. In the quote, Trump calls voters the "dumbest group of voters in the country." He continued, saying that they'd believe anything Fox broadcasts.

  9. Woman Secretly Records Boyfriend’s Tearful Declaration on the ...

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    “Wait for the man who randomly tears up because he’s so in love," she wrote alongside the clip, going on to share that he "looked at me and said, 'I'm just driving with you thinking about how ...