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Japan/US Relations
100
Siesta is an example of this.
What is Borrowing.
100
Sunburn is an example of what?
What is compounding?
100
Xerox is an example of this.
What is coinage?
100
Smoke+fog=smog is an example of this concept
What is blending?
100
Flu is an example of this.
What is clipping?
200
AIDS is an example of what?
What is an acronym?
200
Foolishness is an example of this.
What is derivation?
200
to butter.
What is conversion?
200
television to televise is an example of what?
What is backformation?
200
Ice Ice Baby was written by this person.
Who is Vanilla Ice?
300
Tycoon is an example of this.
What is borrowing.
300
The study of forms or elements of a language.
What is Morphology?
300
How many fingers am I holding up?
What is 5?
300
Can stand by themselves as single words
What are free morphemes?
300
Cannot stand alone and are usually attached to another form.
What are bound morphemes?
400
The terminal velocity of an unladen swallow?
Is it an African or a European Swallow?
400
la país siempre habla Bobby
Cual es Costa Rica?
400
Neil Patrick Harris has this many children.
What is two?
400
The Millenium Falcon was flown by this person in the sixth movie in the attack on the second Death Star.
Who is Lando Calrisian?
400
"Skyscraper" is an example used on our worksheets as a representation of this.
What is Loan translation/calque
500
The invention of completely new terms
What is Coinage?
500
Compounding
What is joining two separate words to create a new word.
500
Conversion
What is a change in the function of a word without reduction, such as when a noun comes to be used as a verb.
500
New words formed from the initial of a set of other words.
What is an acronym?
500
The most common way to produce new English words.
What is Derivation?