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MUSCOVITE Posted 14 years ago
Vocabulary
Vegan (question about word formation)
Hi,
I understand vegan is a derivative of vegetarian?
VEGetariAN -> VEGAN
Could somebody please give me more examples like this?
(I mean examples where a new word is formed by removing some letters from (the middle of ) the original word, leaving a few lead and tail letters intact (*). Note that veterinarian -> vet, veteran -> vet or professor -> prof etc., should be excluded from consideration as no tail letters remain in the derivative nouns.)
mus-te
I understand vegan is a derivative of vegetarian?
VEGetariAN -> VEGAN
Could somebody please give me more examples like this?
(I mean examples where a new word is formed by removing some letters from (the middle of ) the original word, leaving a few lead and tail letters intact (*). Note that veterinarian -> vet, veteran -> vet or professor -> prof etc., should be excluded from consideration as no tail letters remain in the derivative nouns.)
mus-te
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org/wiki/Syncope_(phonetics ) . I don't know any others offhand, sorry. In fact, I have to think twice to recall what 'vegan' means; at first I always take it to be an alien life form.
- org/wiki/Syncope_(phonetics ) .
- I don't know any others offhand, sorry.
- In fact, I have to think twice to recall what 'vegan' means; at first I always take it to be an alien life form.
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I suppose that this is a case of intentional syncope: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syncope_(phonetics) . I don't know any others offhand, sorry. In fact, I have to think twice to recall what 'vegan' means; at first I always take it to be an a
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