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  2. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    Back-formation is either the process of creating a new lexeme (less precisely, a new "word") by removing actual or supposed affixes, or a neologism formed by such a process. Back-formations are shortened words created from longer words, thus back-formations may be viewed as a sub-type of clipping .

  3. Clipping (morphology) - Wikipedia

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    Clipping differs from abbreviation, which is based on a shortening of the written, rather than the spoken, form of an existing word or phrase. Clipping is also different from back-formation, which proceeds by (pseudo-)morpheme rather than segment, and where the new word may differ in sense and word class from its source. [2]

  4. Google Books Ngram Viewer - Wikipedia

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    The program can search for a word or a phrase, including misspellings or gibberish. [5] The n-grams are matched with the text within the selected corpus, and if found in 40 or more books, are then displayed as a graph. [6] The Google Books Ngram Viewer supports searches for parts of speech and wildcards. [6] It is routinely used in research. [7 ...

  5. Clipping - Wikipedia

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    Clipping (morphology), the formation of a new word by shortening it, e.g. "ad" from "advertisement" Clipping (phonetics), shortening the articulation of a speech sound, usually a vowel; Clipping (publications), the cutting-out of articles from a paper publication

  6. AOL Search FAQs - AOL Help

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    • If you don't get any results with search words, try using different words with the same meaning. • You don’t have to worry about capitalization when entering search terms. AOL Search doesn’t differentiate between uppercase and lowercase letters. • You don't need to use "and" between words in your search. AOL Search automatically ...

  7. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...

  8. Google Chrome sucks — here’s why you should stop using it

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    The RAM Chrome uses is insane. Chrome is a memory beast. Unless your PC has 8 GB of RAM or hopefully a solid processor, it will hate Chrome. ... Besides the fact that the default search engine is ...

  9. Navigate, read and search on AOL.com - AOL Help

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    Keyword searches give you a wide variety of results without having to perform an advanced search. You are able to search less and discover more! Type a desired word or phrase in the AOL Search field and hit the Enter key on your keyboard or Click the Search button. AOL Search will find the info you want.