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The document explains four methods of word formation: initialism, acronym, clipping, and truncation. Initialism involves abbreviations pronounced letter by letter, while acronyms are pronounced as words. Clipping shortens longer words to one syllable, and truncation allows for searching root forms of words using symbols like the asterisk.

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Untitled 15

The document explains four methods of word formation: initialism, acronym, clipping, and truncation. Initialism involves abbreviations pronounced letter by letter, while acronyms are pronounced as words. Clipping shortens longer words to one syllable, and truncation allows for searching root forms of words using symbols like the asterisk.

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1 Initialism

2 Acronym

3 Clipped

4 Truncation
Initialism

Initialism is an abbreviation consisting of initial


letters pronounced separately.

For example:
• DVD - Digital Versatile Disc.
• CD - Compact Disc.
Acronyms

Acronyms are abbreviation formed from the initial


letters of other words and it is pronounced as a
word.

For example:
• NASA: National Aeronautics and Space
Administration.
• NATO: North American Trade Organization.
Clipped

Clipping is one of the ways new words are


created in English. It involves the shortening
of a longer word, often reducing it to one
syllable.
Examples of clipped words
•advertisement – ad.

•alligator – gator.

•examination – exam.

•gasoline – gas.

•gymnasium – gym.

•influenza – flu.

•laboratory – lab.

•mathematics – math.
Truncation

Truncation is the act or process


of truncating-shortening something by
removing part of it.
Truncation allows you to search the "root"
form of a word with all its different endings by
adding a symbol to the end of a word.
Example: typing in bank* will retrieve results
with these words: bank, banks, banking,
bankers, bankruptcy The most
common truncation symbol is the asterisk *

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