Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success
Language: English
Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2002
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- Title
- Predicting New Words: The Secrets of Their Success
- Author
- Metcalf, Allan
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Like New
- Dust jacket
- Like New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0618130063
- ISBN 13
- 9780618130061
- Edition
- First Edition.
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By examining past new-word contenders, Metcalf discerns lessons for linguistic longevity. For instance, he shows us why the humorist Gelett Burgess gave us the words blurb and bromide but failed to win anyone over with bleesh and diabob. Metcalf examines words invented for political and social reasons (African American, pro-life), words coined in books (edge city, the Peter principle), brand names and the words derived from them (aspirin, Ping-Pong), and words that started as jokes (big bang, couch potato). On the basis of this research, he develops a scale the FUDGE scale for predicting the success of newly coined words. The FUDGE scale has five factors: Frequency of use, Unobtrusiveness, Diversity of users and situations, Generation of other forms and meanings, and Endurance of the concept. By judging how an emerging new word rates for each FUDGE factor, Metcalf is able to predict which words will take root in the English lexicon and which words will dry up and blow away. In this highly original work, Metcalf shows us how to spin syllabic straw into linguistic gold.
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About the Author
Allan Metcalf is Professor of English at MacMurray College and Executive Secretary of the American Dialect Society.
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