![]() " The Hidden History of Coined Words is filled with intriguing information. Jones, author of The Essential Lewis and Clark It's very witty and learned - and interesting!" - Landon Y. "If my reaction is typical, people will start reading and not be able to put it down. This riveting book does it all." - Jesse Sheidlower, Former Editor at Large of the Oxford English Dictionary and past president of the American Dialect Society Few word books are both this entertaining and this accurate even fewer also manage to say anything new. "Ralph Keyes looks at the history of coined words to explore how creativity itself works in language. Now, in The Hidden History of Coined Words, he has written the best book ever produced on the fascinating stories and processes of how new words are created." - Fred Shapiro, Editor of The New Yale Book of Quotations "Ralph Keyes is a legend for his accurate and very entertaining books about language. Keyes rattles through hundreds of neologisms in entertaining fashion, from spam to moxie to pecking order to gonzo to the surprising gobbledygook.,NZ Listener" Readable and wide ranging, Keyes's book will appeal to both experts and word aficionados." - E. "Every page offers lexicographical surprises, among them the early use of vegan (in 1944) and the failed coinage Malthusianism as a replacement for contraception. The Hidden History of Coined Words will appeal not just to word mavens but history buffs, trivia contesters, and anyone who loves the immersive power of language. He concludes with advice about how to make your own successful coinage. Keyes considers all contenders, while also leading us through the fray between new word partisans, and those who resist them strenuously. Coinages are often contested, controversy swirling around such terms as gonzo, mojo, and booty call. Wimp originated with a book series, as did goop, and nerd from a book by Dr. Neologizers (a Thomas Jefferson coinage) include not just scholars and writers but cartoonists, columnists, children's book authors. More than a few resulted from happy accidents, such as typos, mistranslations, and mishearing (bigly and buttonhole), or from being taken entirely out of context (robotics). Casual wisecracking produced software, crowdsource, and blog. Knickers, for example, resulted from a hoax big bang from an insult. A remarkable number of new words were coined whimsically, originally intended to troll or taunt. He also finds some fascinating patterns, such as that successful neologisms are as likely to be created by chance as by design. Engaging, illuminating, and authoritative, Ralph Keyes's The Hidden History of Coined Words explores the etymological underworld of terms and expressions and uncovers plenty of hidden gems. We take them at face value and rarely when and where they were first minted. Successful word-coinages - those that stay in currency for a good long time - tend to conceal their beginnings. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health. ![]() The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.In the presented paper, we have tried to study syntactic-semantic evolution of newly borrowed neologisms in French and English during the last decades, which in its turn gradually finds the reflection in French and English lexicography. Function change, namely, the conversion and the lexical-syntactic compatibility, should be considered as a language syntactic-semantic evolution, as it is necessary to take into account not only the grammatical and syntactical changes, but also changes in the meaning of words. The words’ semantic evolution has been undergone over the centuries some of the words become hackneyed, while others are enter the language with the new meaning. It is a morphological-syntactic way for word building, with the help of which a word be transfered form one part of speech to another, changing the morphological syntactic function of paradigm. Many linguists name conversion as one of the means of word formation. Sociological form of semantic neology: moving the words from one field to another. Shift of the group of semas belonging to one of the lexemes using a metaphor, a metonymy, and a comparison 2. Semantic neology occurs in three forms: 1. Semantic neologisms - so are called the words that have acquired different meanings. It provides the possibility to create new words, more precisely - the new meanings, with the help of already familiar words and not with the borrowings or formation of new words and word entities. Word coinage is considered to be a special way of lexical derivation.
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