Answer the following questions 1. What do you understand by the term «shortening»? 2. Why can't we say
that shortening is a derivational word-formation? 3. What distinction is made
between abbreviations and clippings. 4. What is the classification of clippings? 5.
What -is the peculiarity of shortened words? 6. . What is the difference between
the clipping and the original word? 7. What is the homonymy of abbreviations? 8.
What do you understand by the term sound-interchange? 9. What is the distinction
between vowel-interchange and consonant-
—interchange? 10. What is understood by the term «backfor-mation?» 11. What is
the peculiarity of blending as a means of word -formation?