Contents

PART I

       ON HORRIBLE WORDS: monsters and barbarities

    1 SLIPSLOPS: poultry interest rates

    2 FOLK ETYMOLOGIES: harbringer

    3 CONVERSION; VERBIFYING: a creative, to routine

    4 BACK-FORMATIONS; IZE-MANIA: to evolute, to reliabilize

    5 THE PAST TENSE: snuck

    6 TRANSITING TRANSITIVITY: coincide it

    7 PHRASAL VERBS: to understand up

    8 COMPOUNDS IN GENERAL: to rage-quit

    9 PARTICULAR COMPOUNDS: to downstream

  10 PORTMANTEAU WORDS; MERGING; METANALYSIS: webinar, alright, nother

  11 SYNCOPE; MUMBLING; MANGLING: deteriate, euw, infatic

  12 BABY TALK: ouchie

  13 AFFIXES: innuendous

  14 ABSTRACT NOUNS: operationalisation

  15 NEGATIVES; OPPOSITES: disinterested, outro

  16 DOUBLE NEGATIVES: irregardless

  17 WORD INFLATION: precautious

  18 IMPRECISION: monumentous

PART II

      ON REGISTER: viscera, vitals and pluck

  19 FANCY LANGUAGE: clinquant ansation

  20 MONOSYLLABLES: zap

  21 BOVRILISATION: ikr

  22 MACARONIC HOO-HA: disploded yawps

  23 IN CONCLUSION: bastards and syllables

      Acknowledgements

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