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Neologisms and portmanteau words were coined from the word as early as 1993 when Lincoln Caplan, in his book " Skadden: Power, Money, and the Rise of a Legal Empire ", used the word " Skaddenfreude " to describe the delight that competitors of Skadden Arps took in its troubles of the early 1990s.
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Neologisms and words
Neologisms are often created by combining existing words ( see compound noun and adjective ) or by giving words new and unique suffixes or prefixes.
Neologisms also can be created through abbreviation or acronym, by intentionally rhyming with existing words or simply through playing with sounds.
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Neologisms and word
Neologisms can become popular through memetics, by way of mass media, the Internet, and word of mouth, including academic discourse in many fields renowned for their use of distinctive jargon, and often become accepted parts of the language.
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Neologisms may take decades to become " old ", however.
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According to John Algeo in Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms 1941-1991, the first recorded usage of " Terror bombing " in a United States publication was in a Reader's Digest article dated June 1941, a finding confirmed by the Oxford English Dictionary.
Neologisms are often directly attributable to a specific person, publication, period, or event.
Fifty Years among the New Words: A Dictionary of Neologisms, 1941-1991.
Neologisms would often develop, and these would quickly pass virally into colloquial usage.
portmanteau and words
The term ' alcopop ' ( a portmanteau of the words alcohol and pop ) is used by advocates of tighter restrictions on alcoholic beverage sales, who argue that the beverages are especially appealing to underage drinkers.
It is a portmanteau derived from the words " pharmacology " and " genomics ".
Another style of comedy horror can also rely on over the top violence and gore such as in Dead Alive ( 1992 ), Evil Dead ( 1981 ), and Club Dread-such films are sometimes known as splatstick, a portmanteau of the words splatter and slapstick.
The word is a portmanteau word of the English words emotion and icon.
* Grue and bleen, portmanteau words formed from green and blue, coined by Nelson Goodman to illustrate his " new riddle of induction "
The name was created as a portmanteau of the words " Mosaic killer ", hinting that Netscape would be the end to the ( then only ) competitor browser, Mosaic.
Mafic is an adjective describing a silicate mineral or rock that is rich in magnesium and iron ; the term is a portmanteau of the words " magnesium " and " ferric ".
The name " okapi " is a portmanteau of two Lese words, oka a verb meaning to cut and kpi which is a noun referring to the design made on Efé arrows by wrapping the arrow with bark so as to leave stripes when scorched by fire.
Smog is a type of air pollution ; the word " smog " was coined in the early 20th century as a portmanteau of the words smoke and fog to refer to smoky fog.
After crossing yet another brook into the sixth rank, Alice immediately encounters Humpty Dumpty, who, besides celebrating his unbirthday, provides his own translation of the strange terms in " Jabberwocky " ( in the process, introducing Alice and the reader to the concept of portmanteau words ) before his inevitable fall.
Shart, as a portmanteau of the words shit and fart, became popular after its usage in the 2004 film Along Came Polly.
The poem borrows occasionally from Carroll's short poem " Jabberwocky " in Through the Looking-Glass ( especially the poem's creatures and portmanteau words ), but it is a stand-alone work, first published in 1876 by Macmillan.
* Taglish-Filipino portmanteau of the words " Tagalog " and " English "
Epigenetics ( as in " epigenetic landscape ") was coined by C. H. Waddington in 1942 as a portmanteau of the words genetics and epigenesis.
" Amtrak " is a portmanteau of the words " America " and " track ".
Notably, in Russian translation " a mawg " was rendered as " chelobakka ", a portmanteau of words " chelovek " ( a man ) and " sobaka " ( a dog ) also spoofing the name Chewbacca.
The entire book is written in a largely idiosyncratic language, consisting of a mixture of standard English lexical items and neologistic multilingual puns and portmanteau words, which many critics believe attempts to recreate the experience of sleep and dreams.
This language is composed of composite words from some sixty to seventy world languages, combined to form puns, or portmanteau words and phrases intended to convey several layers of meaning at once.
" Allen B. Ruch has dubbed Joyce's new language " dreamspeak ," and describes it as " a language that is basically English, but extremely malleable and all-inclusive, rich with portmanteau words, stylistic parodies, and complex puns.
A mockumentary ( a portmanteau of the words mock and documentary ), is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format.
Many sniglets are portmanteau words, a comedic style often traced to Lewis Carroll.
The term phreak is a portmanteau of the words phone and freak, and may also refer to the use of various audio frequencies to manipulate a phone system.
It is a portmanteau of the words dynamic, maximum, and ion.
The name Florala refers to the town's location, adjacent to the Florida border: it is a portmanteau that combines the beginning letters in the words " Florida " and " Alabama ".
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Dollfuss was a very short man and his diminutive stature ( 155 cm = 5 ' 2 " or 150 cm = 4 ' 11 " according to the New York Times ) was the object of satire ; among his nicknames were ' Millimetternich ' ( making a portmanteau out of millimeter and Metternich ), and the " Jockey ".
The name Nebelung — apparently a portmanteau of the German word ( Nebel ) for Mist or Fog and a medieval Germanic saga, Nibelungenlied — is perhaps derived from the cat's distinctive silky blue-grey coat and from the breed's progenitors, who were named after the two major figures in the Nibelungenlied, the German warrior Siegfried and the Icelandic queen Brunhilde.
They were called hæferblæte in Old English ; the word " bittern " came to English from Old French butor, itself from Gallo-roman butitaurus, a portmanteau of Latin būtiō and taurus.
* Spatharokandidatos () – a portmanteau of the titles spatharios and kandidatos, both of which were types of palace guards in the 4th – 6th centuries.
Hearing that the parliamentarians were looking for him he sank his portmanteau and valuables in the moat which surrounded the house, and sought refuge in the tree.
The vast empty fields which emerged in the historic town during the demolitions of the 1980s were sarcastically called " Ceauşima " ( a portmanteau of Ceauşescu and Hiroshima ).
In the nineteenth century, as gas light became a source of illumination, branched ceiling fixtures were produced, and the term gasolier, a portmanteau of gas and chandelier, was frequently used.
Some squires also became the local rector themselves and were known as squarsons ; a portmanteau of the words squire and parson.
The two were referred to as the first superstar couple of the Internet age, and the pairing's popularity resulted in their being known by the portmanteau " Bennifer " ( for Ben and Jennifer ) to the media, as well as to fans using the name combination.
Magellan has his own pets like Cooey and the slurms ( a portmanteau of slug and worm ), who were animated with Clay animation.
The villagers ( none of whom knew English ) were told that they were being filmed for a documentary on village life and Cohen was a famous documentary host called Nicolae Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, which aroused suspicions among the villagers because the name sounded like a portmanteau of the names of the Romanian Communist leaders Nicolae Ceauşescu and Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej.
At this point the male Muppet was given the name Mahna Mahna and the female alien creatures were referred to as The Snouths ( as a portmanteau of " snout " and " mouth " since their mouth also served as their noses ).
The types were all widely known as amphtrack, amtrak, amtrac etc., a portmanteau of amphibious tractor.
On September 6, the call letters were changed to WBDC-TV to reflect its network status, since the callsign was a portmanteau of WB and Washington DC.
The bonds were counted in Ridgeway ’ s presence in London, sealed in a packet and then put in his portmanteau that had a special lock on it.
The real bonds were never in the portmanteau.
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