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How to Become a Word-Coining Genius

The Play's the Thing

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Be Creative and Make Words Sound Cooler

Epenthesis is adding a syllable, syncope is removing a letter or syllable, apocope is omitting the last syllable, and transposition involves rearranging letters. The purpose of inventing new words is often to make them sound cooler, even if the existing word already carries the intended meaning.

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