Across
- 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
Down
- 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