Coinage
There are some points of view about the meaning of coinage.
Coinage is the word formation process in which a new word is created either
deliberately or accidentally without using the other word formation processes
and often from seemingly nothing. As neologism or coinage, we identify the word
formation process of inventing entirely new words (neology). This is a very
rare and uncommon method to create new words, but in the media, people try to
outdo each other with more and better words to name their products. Often these
trademark names are adopted by the masses and they become ''everyday words of
language'' (Yule 2006, 53). Also coinage refers to extension of a name of a
product from a specific reference to a more general one such as Kleenex, Xerox,
and Kodak. And
in some cases, the meaning of these words is broadened. Example, complicated
chemical or technical terms (like Aspirin: acetylsalicylic acid) are adopted as
the trademark term and often replace standard terms for e.g. in this example,
painkillers. This also happened to words like Xerox, Kleenex or the German Nutella. Some words are differentiated from
'standard' neologisms, namely eponyms. Eponyms are words that are
''based on the name of a person or a place'' (Yule 2006, 53). Common eponyms
are
watt from
name of the discoverer, Fahrenheit from name the expert, jeans takes from Italian city of JENWA, sandwich from a
person who makes his meal between two slices of bread, gold from Italian
scientist.
The following list of words provides some common coinages
found in everyday English:
Aspirin Escalator Heroin Band-aid
Factoid Frisbee Google Kerosene
Kleenex Laundromat Linoleum Muggle
Nylon Psychedelic Quark Xerox
Zipper
Notice that many coinages start out as brand names for
everyday items such as Kleenex for a facial tissueby M. Ansari Said
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