Stylistic lexicology

An anecdote once told by Danish linguist O.Esperson

• A young lady on coming home from school was explaining to her grandma: Take an egg, she said, and make a perforation on in the base and a corresponding one in the apex. Then apply the lips to the aperture, and by forcibly inhaling the breath the shell is entirely discharged of its contents”. The old lady exclaimed: ”It beats all how folk do things nowadays. When I was a girl they made a hole in each end and sucked.”

Terms and their groups

• A term – is a word (word-combination) denoting a scientific concept.
• Terms formed from Greek, Latin, French, German or other foreign sources, e.g.
• Botany, anatomy, schedule, character, chemistry (Greek); locomotive, chivalry, march, parliament, estate (Latin); facade, garage, massage, reportage, banquet, ballet, buffet, fillet, masseur, chef, chassis, masseuse, renaissance, retreat, maneuver, squad, coup d’etat, cliché, belles-lettres, entrepreneur, crochet (French); cobalt, zinc, quartz, sauerkraut, kindergarten (German).
• Terms formed from the common word stock, by means of semantic change, e.g. tank, company (milit.); wing (archit); fading, jamming (radio).
• Terms formed by means of special suffixes and prefixes: e.g. ultra-violet, antidote, transplant.

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