Blends, Their Relation to English Word Formation (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Pound, Louise

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330395166 ISBN 13: 9781330395165

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Blends, Their Relation to English Word Formation The following pages grew, by gradual accretion, out of some chance notations of blends made from time to time by the author, or brought to her attention by others. The form into which the discussion shaped itself is due to the manner of its genesis, rather than to preliminary plan, or to any original intention on the part of the author to treat the subject. Of chief interest, probably, is the section dealing with the present-day vogue of blend formations. It seems time that specific attention be called to the contemporary popularity of blends, and to the freedom felt in their coinage, not only in the factitious creations of the lettered class, and in folk-forms, but in scientific nomenclature, in trade terms, and in arbitrarily made baptismal names and place-names. Since treatment is limited to English blends, no effort was made, where bibliographical citations are given, to include references to blends in other languages. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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About the Author:

Louise Pound (1872-1958) was a distinguished literary scholar, folklorist, and professor of English at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for more than fifty years. Roger Welsch is a well-known folklorist and essayist. He is the author of nearly thirty books, including "It's Not the End of the Earth, but You Can See It from Here" and the coauthor of "Cather's Kitchens: Foodways in Literature and Life," both available in Bison Books editions.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1330395166
• ISBN 13: 9781330395165
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 66