English Metalanguage

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Across
  1. 2. the process of converting a brand name or proper noun into a commonly understood, everyday term
  2. 3. a sequence of words with the same or similar internal phonemes
  3. 5. patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables, often used in poetry and song
  4. 7. old words no longer used in modern english
  5. 11. the use of lexemes from languages outside of english, eg. pig and pork
  6. 12. a sequence of words starting with the same letter to form a sentence
  7. 14. the process of changing a word's word class such as noun -> verb
  8. 15. words that resemble a sound they describe
  9. 17. taking a long word and cutting out certain segments of it to reduce the length
  10. 18. shortening a word with the use of apostrophes
  11. 20. adjoining words with the use of a hyphen
Down
  1. 1. the fancy word for blending
  2. 2. the repetition of similar consonants or consonant groups
  3. 4. words that have the same or similar ending phonemes
  4. 6. the first letter of a sequence of words pronounced individually
  5. 8. the first letter of a sequence of words pronounced as one word
  6. 9. putting together two full words in one
  7. 10. a set of words commonly expected to come one after the other
  8. 13. smooshing parts of multiple words to create one combination word
  9. 16. a completely new word with no etymologic or historic root
  10. 19. shortening a word in a way that makes it slang