Example sentences for: backwords

How can you use “backwords” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Backwords differ from back formations : the latter are words (often verbs) formed on existing words (often nouns) by severing an ending.

  • I lived David Galef's “Backwords and Newances” [XVI,2], but he certainly is not a techie (from technician, usually electronic technician `one familiar with and capable of dealing with technology')

  • Apart from documenting linguistic treachery, however, the collecting of backwords provides capsule views of man's progress in a variety of fields.

  • Perhaps the best example of this paradigm is the touch-tone phone, which has so edged out the older models that two backwords were formed for the old type: rotary phone and dial phone . On the other hand, cellular phones are still new enough to have their own novelty label.

  • To distinguish them from backwords, they may be termed newances.


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