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Back-formations
Roxanne K. Young
in AMA Manual of Style: A Guide for Authors and Editors (10th edition)
Back-formation is the creation of a new word in the mistaken belief that it was the source of an existing word. Many back-formations are verbs, some of them derived from abstract nouns (ambulate from ...
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