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This document discusses several processes of word formation in English: Coinage is the invention of new terms like aspirin, nylon, and zipper that become generic terms. Borrowing adopts words from other languages like alcohol from Arabic and robot from Czech. Compounding combines words like bookcase and fingerprint. Clipping reduces words like chem and prof. Acronyms form new words from initial letters like CD and VCR. Derivation uses affixes like un- and -ness to create new words from existing ones. Prefix

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