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“Luncheon is still around, but it has acquired something of a precious connotation” is incorrect. It is just as if they had remained in Canada the whole time. Government, as long as the passengers stay on the train, they do not have to go though customs, and Canadians and Americans do not have to present passports. There is a passenger railroad that connects New Brunswick with the rest of Canada, via northern Maine. Note that the United States has more miles of railroad tracks than any other country, and that Canada has tens of thousand more of railroad tracks, including a line that runs all the way from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Vancouver, British Columbia. There is that odd word “sleeper” that is used in the English of the British Isles, Australia, and New Zealand, but what they mean is a “railroad tie” in North American English.

Thus, when people overseas say “railway carriage”, they really mean a “railroad car” in American or Canadian English. This applies to either automobiles or trains. The simple word “car” is a clipping of “carriage”. I probably would not know about or care about these except for a noteworthy set of dialog and music in the film CLOSE ENCOUNTERS OF THE THIRD KIND. There are also demisemiquavers and semiquavers. I have read that the American name for this kind of a (rarely-used) note is a 1/64th note. “hemidemisemiquaver”, and NOT “hemi-demi-semi-quaver”. I have read that the following word arose in ENGLAND: I believe that “taxicab” is used in Canada, too. The spelling in American English is “taxicab”, and never in my life have I ever seen “taxi-cab”.

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Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below: Syncope : contraction of a word by omission of one or more syllables or letters in the middle, like ma’m from madam, specs from spectacles, and fo’c’sle for forecastle. Here are some linguistic terms related to word formation by clipping:Īpocope : The cutting off or omission of the last letter or syllable/s of a word: pic from picture, vocab from vocabulary.Īpheresis : omission of one or more sounds or letters from the beginning of a word: possum from opossum. Only time will tell which of the current shortened words so popular in social media will stick to the language. In middle clipping the middle of the word is retained: Some shortenings drop the beginning of the word: It fails as a spelling, however, because mic rhymes with Bic. As an abbreviation under an audio port, “mic” is a useful space-saver. Beginning in the 1960s, the use of the abbreviation “mic” on electronic devices began to be confused with the word mike. The shortened form mike for microphone has been in the language since 1911. For example, the shortening of business is spelled biz because severed from business, the syllable bus is pronounced like the word for the vehicle. Some clippings change the spelling of the first syllable in order to keep the desired pronunciation. Most clippings keep the front part of the word, dropping the remaining syllables: Words are clipped from front, back, or both ends. Plane: a shortening of aeroplane/airplane. The omnibus offered inexpensive public transportation to the masses. The wealthier classes had enjoyed the services of carriages for hire as early as the 17th century.

Classical Latin omnibus means “for all.” As a term for a public transportation vehicle, omnibus was borrowed from French. Luncheon is still around, but it has acquired something of a precious connotation.īus: a shortening of omnibus. Although lunch is documented as early as 1829, it was still considered to be vulgar a century later.

Lunch: a shortening of luncheon, a word documented from 1580. Note: The word taxi-cab combines two clippings. Later the word was applied to a motorized vehicle. Taxi: a shortening of Taximeter, a device for measuring distance and figuring the fare.Ĭab: a shortening of cabriolet, a light two-wheeled chaise drawn by one horse. Some standard English words that began as clippings are: Sometimes a clipping drives out its longer original and becomes a standard word in its own right. These shortened words are called clippings. Shortened forms of words like rhinoceros ( rhino), synchronization ( sync), and limousine ( limo), common in conversation and informal writing, are usually used in their entirety in formal contexts.