the nineteenth and twentieth century

1. the nineteenth and twentieth century • Compounds Formed from Greek and Latin Elements • 219. Prefixes and Suffixes • 220. Coinages • 221. Common Words from Proper Names NURNAJIHAH BINTI SHAFIE 174389

2. 218. Compounds Formed from Greek and Latin Elements • In Greek and Latin, in contrast to English, roots do not typically stand alone. So compounds are composed of bound roots. • Compounds formed in English from borrowed Latin and Greek morphemes preserve this characteristic. • Example : eugenics, stethoscope, automobile

3. 219. Prefixes and suffixes • Another method of enlarging the vocabulary • Twentieth-century popular creations : stardom, filmdom, fandom, gangster • Familiar endings such as –some, -ful and –less can be freely added

4. 220. coinages • New words must be attributed to deliberate invention of any products. • Mostly, these coinages are the product of ingenuity and imitation as this to are being blended in variable proportion. • Most of these coinages are spread thru advertisement, such as KFC, Pizza, milk. • There are another coinages that use the acronyms, which means the combination of initial or few letters of 2 or more words. For example, KFC ( Kentucky Fried Chicken ) • Blending different words are also considered as another type of coinages.

5. 221. Common words from proper names • Comes from the name of person and place. • Example : • ~ Tabasco sauce : the name of the Tabasco River in Mexico • ~ Limousine : the name of a province in France • More than 500 common words in English have been traced to proper names.

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