Blends, Their Relation to English Word Formation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from Blends, Their Relation to English Word Formation

It would then be a task doubtfully profitable, if not futile, to attempt to determine with approximate definite ness the number of fusion words which have found their way into the lexicon of the standard language in the past.

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Excerpt from Blends, Their Relation to English Word Formation

The following pages grew, by gradual accretion, out of some chance notations of blends made from time to time by the author, or brought to her attention by others. The form into which the discussion shaped itself is due to the manner of its genesis, rather than to preliminary plan, or to any original intention on the part of the author to treat the subject. Of chief interest, probably, is the section dealing with the present-day vogue of blend formations. It seems time that specific attention be called to the contemporary popularity of blends, and to the freedom felt in their coinage, not only in the factitious creations of the lettered class, and in folk-forms, but in scientific nomenclature, in trade terms, and in arbitrarily made baptismal names and place-names. Since treatment is limited to English blends, no effort was made, where bibliographical citations are given, to include references to blends in other languages.

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