what's the history behind the clipping of words?
why do men tried to do the process of clipping words?
i need serious answers right now!!
2007-09-25 01:17:03 · 3 answers · asked by Peace!!!! 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
Clipping of words refers to cutting off shorter versions of longer words, that become popular usage.
Philologists (linguists) distinguish between different clipped forms- those which have lost the rear parts of the original ; and aphetic forms, those which have lost their front.
For example, fan is a clipped form of fanatic, pike an aphetic form of turnpike. But the terms clipping and clipped form are also used generically for the cutting off of either end of the original word.
Technically, they are abbreviations which began as slang (deli from delicatessen, and psych, math, soc, and chem on nearly every college campus), but lasting clipped forms frequently become Informal (flu, from influenza) or even Standard (bus, from omnibus).
2007-09-28 21:55:53 · answer #1 · answered by maî 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What do you mean by clipping of words ?
Is it something that people do deliberately ?
2007-09-25 14:56:00 · answer #2 · answered by Beardo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what does that mean, "clipping words"?
2007-09-29 06:02:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anon O Mus 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋