For my final paper I will be discussing acronyms used in our everyday life and their origins. We use acronyms daily to save time and space when texting such as LOL ( laugh out loud) or TTYL ( talk to you later). According to the Oxford English Dictionary LOL was added in 2011, however the origin of  LOL can be tracked to the 1980’s in a newsletter and now is used by almost everyone daily. I even find myself saying LOL out loud when I am speaking and something is funny but not funny enough to actually make me laugh. Another point I can bring up is do theses new acronyms become words themselves. Such as the word SCUBA ( self- contained underwater breathing apparatus), I always thought SCUBA was just a word within itself. I think thats why this topic is most interesting to me because acronyms are truly under appreciated. Another good example is ASAP and the two ways you can pronounce this acronym. I also came across an article that spoke about initialism. According to Merriam Webster initialism is an abbreviation formed from initial letters. I will also bring up acronyms such as  Pin ( personal identification number), IMAX ( Image Maximum), LASER ( Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation) , BAE ( before anyone else) , etc. I could also bring up how acronyms can be considered slang also in examples like SMH ( shaking my head) , TBH ( to be honest) , IRL ( in real life) and many more. 

Cheese burger [ [cheese]n [ burger]n ]n- endocentric

Pumpkin pie [[ pumpkin]n [ pie]n]n- endocentric

Chocolate cake [[ chocolate]n [cake]n]n – endocentric

Black berry [[ black]a [ berry]n ]n – endocentric

Chicken fingers [[ chicken]n [ fingers]n ]n – exocentric because they aren’t fingers from a chicken

1. [ [ x] v ion]n 

React – Reaction 

Create- Creation 

Correlate – Correlation 

2) [ [ x] y en] v          y= A , N 

Length – Lengthen 

Spoke – Spoken 

Strength- Strengthen 

3)  React- Reactionen 

Create- Creationen 

Correlate – Correlationen 

When applying the output from number one and the process used for number two the words did not come out as well formed. The words are also non existing words. Although I think an English speaker would be able to understand what a person meant if they used the example “creationen”. However they are still non existing words. I think the reason this process does not work is because their is already an ending [ion] and when adding [en] on top of that suffix it does not make sense. Therefor being an ungrammatical word.

The words forbid, forget, forgive, forgo , and forswear are all complex words. I think this because each word can be broken down into two morphemes and can stand on their own. For example forget can be broken down to for- get and for- give . These are two separate constituents that have meanings that can stand alone. Simplex words can not be broken down into two or more morphemes, which shows evidence as to why I think the following words forbid, forget, forgive, forgo , and forswear are all complex words.