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The document discusses blending, which is the process of creating a new word by combining parts of two different words. It provides examples of blends like smog, brunch, and motel. It also describes four common methods for forming blends and discusses analyzing new potential blends.

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Blending

The document discusses blending, which is the process of creating a new word by combining parts of two different words. It provides examples of blends like smog, brunch, and motel. It also describes four common methods for forming blends and discusses analyzing new potential blends.

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Blending

the Process of creating a new word by combining the parts of two different words.
e.g.
smoke + fog : smog
breakfast + lunch : brunch
motor + hotel : motel

Formation of blending
1. The beginning of one word is added to the end of the other.
For example, brunch is a blend of breakfast and lunch.
This is the most common method of blending.

2. The beginnings of two words are combined.


For example, cyborg is a blend of cybernatic and organism.

3. One complete word is combined with part of another word.


For example, guesstimate is a blend of guess and estimate.

4. Two words are blended around a common sequence of sounds.


For example, the word Californication, from a song by the Red Hot Chili Peppers, is a blend
of California and fornication.

Wrong Cutting
Ex. Apron from napron
Umpire from nomper
Nickname from ekename

Analyzing
• Spice + ham
• Transfer + resistor
• Emotion + icon
• Situation + comedy
• Inter + network
• biological + electronic
• biographical + picture
• British pop music
• documentary + drama
• Internet + etiquette

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