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Wednesday, March 19, 2014

What is Back formation?

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Back formation

There is a situation
Known as back formation
When a new word's made out of another,
Based on the assumption
Or often the presumption
The new word is the base word of the other.

So we say sulk from sulky
Complicit from complicity
Or shorten lazy down to the word laze,
Flab was born of flabby
And jell came down from jelly
And in the same way hazy became haze!

By Kerin Gedge
Copyright 2014



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