Across
- 5. The process of creating new words by putting two free morphemes together to form a new word
- 7. Words that evolve as the result of using the first letter of a series of words and pronouncing this new word as a word in its own right
- 8. This process involves dropping the endings (and sometimes beginnings) from a word to create a shorter form
- 9. Are words within phrases so closely associated with one another that when we hear one we almost automatically provide the other, and they can come in the form of clichés or colloquial expressions,
- 10. Words that are no longer used in everyday life and they may have been preserved in special contexts but are no longer common
- 11. Are different from shortenings as they involve squeezing two words into one and the apostrophe signifies that part of a word is missing
Down
- 1. The term given to a newly coined word, expression or usage
- 2. The development of common, everyday words from words that began life as proper nouns (names of people, places or brands)
- 3. Are made up of the beginning letters in a sequence of words, but continue to be said as a series of letters
- 4. English has acquired a great deal of its vocabulary by borrowing words from other languages and incorporating them into its lexicon
- 6. Words produced by using parts of two words to create a new one
- 9. The process of converting words from one word class to another class without adding any suffixes to the word