However in English the beginning of the word was hamburger associated with the English word and the end of the word ham, got the meaning On the burger a bun cut into two parts. analogy with the word quite a number of new hamburger words were coined, such as: baconburger, beefburger, etc. In the seventieths of the cheeseburger, fishburger, twentieth century there was a political scandal in the hotel where the Democratic Party of the USA had its “Watergate” pre-election headquarters. Republicans managed to install bugs there and when they were discovered there was a scandal and the ruling American government had to resign. The name acquired the meaning political scandal”, “Watergate” “a Similarly to this word quite a number of other “corruption”. words were formed by using the splinter (apheresis of the gate word such as: Watergate), Irangate, Westlandgate, shuttlegate, etc. The splinter is added mainly to Proper milliongate, gate names: names of people involved in the scandal or a geographical name denoting the place where the scandal occurred. The splinter was formed by clipping the mobile beginning of the word and is used to denote special automobile types of automobiles, such as: etc. snowmobile, tourmobile, The splinter was formed by clipping the beginning of napper the word and is used to denote different types of kidnapper crimes, such as: etc. The busnapper, babynapper, dognapper, splinter (holic) was formed by clipping the beginning of aholic the word of Arabian origin where denoted alcoholic al the The splinter means for (a)holic koh’l – “powder staining lids”. infatuated by the object denoted by the stem of the word, e. g. bookaholic, computerholic, coffeeholic, cheesaholic, and many others. workaholic Splinters can be called pseudomorphemes because they are neither roots nor affixes, they are more or less artificial. Splinters have only one function in English: they serve to alter the lexical meaning of the same part of speech, whereas
However in English the beginning of the word hamburger was associated with the English word ham, and the end of the word burger got the meaning a bun cut into two parts. On the analogy with the word hamburger quite a number of new words were coined, such as: baconburger, beefburger, cheeseburger, fishburger, etc. In the seventieths of the twentieth century there was a political scandal in the hotel “Watergate” where the Democratic Party of the USA had its pre-election headquarters. Republicans managed to install bugs there and when they were discovered there was a scandal and the ruling American government had to resign. The name “Watergate” acquired the meaning “a political scandal”, “corruption”. Similarly to this word quite a number of other words were formed by using the splinter gate (apheresis of the word Watergate), such as: Irangate, Westlandgate, shuttlegate, milliongate, etc. The splinter gate is added mainly to Proper names: names of people involved in the scandal or a geographical name denoting the place where the scandal occurred. The splinter mobile was formed by clipping the beginning of the word automobile and is used to denote special types of automobiles, such as: snowmobile, tourmobile, etc. The splinter napper was formed by clipping the beginning of the word kidnapper and is used to denote different types of crimes, such as: busnapper, babynapper, dognapper, etc. The splinter aholic (holic) was formed by clipping the beginning of the word alcoholic of Arabian origin where al denoted the koh’l – “powder for staining lids”. The splinter (a)holic means infatuated by the object denoted by the stem of the word, e. g. bookaholic, computerholic, coffeeholic, cheesaholic, workaholic and many others. Splinters can be called pseudomorphemes because they are neither roots nor affixes, they are more or less artificial. Splinters have only one function in English: they serve to alter the lexical meaning of the same part of speech, whereas