English Metalanguage

3. adjoining words with the use of a hyphen
4. smooshing parts of multiple words to create one combination word
7. a sequence of words with the same or similar internal phonemes
10. shortening a word with the use of apostrophes
11. the fancy word for blending
13. the first letter of a sequence of words pronounced as one word
16. words that have the same or similar ending phonemes
17. words that resemble a sound they describe
18. the process of converting a brand name or proper noun into a commonly understood, everyday term
19. the first letter of a sequence of words pronounced individually
20. taking a long word and cutting out certain segments of it to reduce the length

1. the repetition of similar consonants or consonant groups
2. the use of lexemes from languages outside of english, eg. pig and pork
5. old words no longer used in modern english
6. putting together two full words in one
7. a sequence of words starting with the same letter to form a sentence
8. the process of changing a word's word class such as noun -> verb
9. a completely new word with no etymologic or historic root
12. patterns of stressed and unstressed syllables, often used in poetry and song
14. a set of words commonly expected to come one after the other
15. shortening a word in a way that makes it slang