English is an interesting language. The most specific characteristic of this global language is, it is spoken worldwide.Therefore this language has become very rich. Moreover it is enriching day by day. It has adopted many words from different languages spoken in all the corners of the world as well as this language goes through many word formation processes. One of the wonderful processes is clipping. Let’s understand ‘clipping’ with few examples.
CLIPPING :
Clipping is the word formation process which consists in the reduction of a word to one of its parts. These words are called clipped words.
Clipped Words:
advertisement – ad
automobile – auto
cabriolet – cab
examination – exam
fanatic – fan
gasoline – gas
gymnasium – gym
hamburger – burger
influenza – flu
laboratory – lab
luncheon – lunch
mathematics – math
memorandum – memo
moving picture – movie
pantaloons – pants
photograph – photo
refrigerator – fridge
university – varsity
zoological park – zoo
telephone - phone
aeroplane - plane
microphone - mike
kilogram - kilo
cafeteria – cafe
This word-formation ‘clipping’ has given beautiful words to the English language.
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