A Year of New Words (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781492864165)

In 2012, linguist Edwin Battistella made up and Tweeted a word a day. A YEAR OF NEW WORDS tells the story of those words--the blends, clippings, prefixes, suffixes, malapropisms and more that formed the basis for 366 made-up words. What do the words look like? You'll find exitstentialist, dawndle, textumble, and virony. There's flabricate, outst, vomotion, anarcissist, snattered, vigilantry, humorality, and peasle. And fregenyms, improvision, febrfy, soarical, snubbub, flossolalia, nosticate, kimpy, cashugenah, soloria, testosterantics, hypirically, leapwork, jabbercize, and more. A YEAR OF NEW WORDS is an entertaining story of words with some serious linguistics underneath.

Author: Edwin L. Battistella
ISBN-10: 1492864161
ISBN-13: 9781492864165
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 11/08/2013
Pages: 98
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.31lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.20d