The English language has been originated and developed from an Anglo-Saxon base of common words: household words, parts of the body, common animals, natural elements, most pronouns, prepositions, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs.
Other modern words in English have developed from five sources. I would like to share one of those source everyday through my posts.
Words which are created from Nothing
Examples of words that have just appeared in the language out of nothing are byte, dog (replacing the earlier hund), donkey, jam, kick, log, googol, quasar and yuppie. The latter two are acronyms (words made from initials).
Shakespere coined over 1600 words including countless, critical, excellent, lonely, majestic, obscene.
From Ben Johnson we got damp, from Isaac Newton centrifugal and from Thomas More: explain and exact.
Isn’t that interesting?
Stay tuned for more such word creations! 🙂
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AKA The Versatile 
Very interesting…nice to learn the history behind what we use everyday!
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Yes indeed! I too was intrigued to learn them! 🙂
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Well done on the research! I’m glad to see someone who knows that English is a Germanic language derived from Anglo-Saxon and not from Latin!
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Thank you there! Yea, I love finding out such info on Linguistics 🙂
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Then you should follow my series on intro to linguistics
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Is it? Sure! Share me the link!
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Sure, here’s the first post: https://langislife.wordpress.com/2015/09/02/linguistics-lessons-introduction/?preview=true
I’m doing a new post every Wednesday.
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Thanks! Will take a look!
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this is great post 🙂 got some good info 🙂 btw, you are a ding business and work ?
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I work and also plan to do my own business, soon! 🙂
How about you?
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same here 🙂 I work n planning to do biz. I saw you are a partner with some brands..so just asked 😛
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Oh! Ok! That is a part of blogging 🙂
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🙂 don’t u get mail 😛
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Will be checking in some time! 🙂
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🙂 cool
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