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Names of apples like cleopatra and democrat, of potatoes like bintje, black derwent, and kennebec, carry a Tasmanian stamp (in Australia at any rate), as does the mutton bird (the shearwater, Puffinus tenuirostris )—which has given Tasmanian English the verb mutton bird or in its abbreviated form bird, as well as lexical oddities like dizz (`cook a mutton bird') for those foolhardy enough to contemplate such a feat.
For example, one extreme lexical transformation is the nickname Poll which is derived from Mary, in which the m has been both occluded and unvoiced, the a has been retracted, the r has been lingualized, and the y has been dropped. (p. 306.)
They are mistakes at sentence level rather than word level; prosodic rather than lexical mistakes; mistakes of stress, intonation, and syntactic segmenting: in effect, accentuating the wrong word or syllable, modulating the pitch incorrectly (a rising rather than falling tone, say, or a questioning rather than affirming tone), and pausing in the wrong place.
The point is that in the first fifty-year segment, the lexical landscape is one of occupation and subsistence rather than exploration: it is utilitarian rather than interpretive.
Polysemy is the name given by linguists to the lexical phenomenon exemplified by words like run and set , each of which has a very large of senses, many of which seem unrelated.