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3 Quarks Daily2/12/2026

Summary

Stan Carey at Sentence First discusses a linguistic fad characterized by two main stereotyped patterns or formulas that overlap morphologically. The first type involves taking a word or short phrase, truncating the first stressed syllable, adding a y-suffix, and reducing the next word or stressed syllable to its initial letter.

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