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