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back-clipping
Language; General language
The process of creating a new word by removing letters from the end of an existing word.
back-formation
Language; General language
The process of forming a word that looks like a root-word by removing affixes from an already existing word.
backronym
Language; General language
A word that was initially not an acronym that has had an acronymic interpretation contrived for it.
backshift
Language; General language
The backwards-in-time shifting of tense that occurs when we report indirect speech.
back slang
Language; General language
A type of Cockney slang in which words are pronounced as if spelled backwards.
backslash (\)
Language; General language
One of the many names for the \ symbol. It arose from the field of computer science in the latter half of the 20th century.
backward pronominalization
Language; General language
A type of cataphoric construction in which a pronoun precedes its antecedent.
