1.4.4.1. Clipping
Clipping is the way of shortening, realised by clipping off some part of a word, and
removing the rest, with the result that the word acquires some linguistic value of its own
(for example: phone from telephone, plane from airplane, flu from influenza). In this
process not only words can be shortened but also whole phrases (for example: zoo is
made from zoological gardens). In that case, a new obtained word is not really new as it
is a stylistic option of already existing word.
More examples of clipping are: ad ← advertisement, condo ← condominium,
demo ← demonstration, disco ← discotheque, fax ← telefax, lab ← laboratory, photo
← photography, prof ← professor (Minkova &Stockwell 2009).
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