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Chapter 3 Three Major Processes of Word-formation (55 %) Compounding or composition (about 27 %): space craft; job-finding Derivation or affixation (about 17.5 %): ex-wife; greenish Conversion (about 10.5 %): bus (v.); buy (n.), Eight Minor Processes of Word-formation (26.5 %) Initialisms and acronyms (about 9 %): U.N.; TV; UNESCO Blending (about 6 %): brunch; boatel Clipping (about 2 %): phone; lab Words from proper names (about 2 %): an Uncl Tom; xerox Back formation (about 1 %): gangle (from gangly (a.)); vacuumclean Reduplication (about 0.5 %): walkie-talkie; go-go Neo-classical forma