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** use of such a brief form in combinations (not unusually from words that are abbreviated themselves, such as ad from advertisement) | ** use of such a brief form in combinations (not unusually from words that are abbreviated themselves, such as ad from advertisement) | ||
* '''back-formation'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation] - adding to the set of inflections (the paradigm) by removing or substituting affixes | * '''back-formation'''[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back-formation] - adding to the set of inflections (the [[paradigm]]) by removing or substituting affixes | ||
:: often following a pattern, see e.g. how English changed changed how it dealt with Latin words over time | :: often following a pattern, see e.g. how English changed changed how it dealt with Latin words over time | ||
:: differs from e.g. clipping, in that clipping does not change the meaning, and back-formation is a new inflection | :: differs from e.g. clipping, in that clipping does not change the meaning, and back-formation is a new inflection | ||
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