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Americans must have realized about this time that the German ending - weise has an English equivalent, and this was accordingly resuscitated: the old likewise and crosswise family was joined by neologisms like countrywise and stylewise . Then came hopefully , a word which had long existed in English and meant `in a hopeful manner': you could apply for a job hopefully because you were `full of hope.
According to the Branfords' own calculations (made in 1988) the source languages for items in the DOSAE were 48 per cent Dutch/Afrikaans; 29 per cent English (i.e., neologisms); 11 per cent Bantu languages, and 12 per cent other.
But the most interesting method of analyzing Vance's neologisms is by etymological speculation, which falls into roughly five categories that shade into one another like colors in the spectrum.
The punner like Arnold prolifically spawns neologisms, inkhorn terms, even nonce-words.
As Martyn Ecott cleverly demonstrates, francophone purists have reason for alarm; the flow, absolute flood of vocabulary from French into English, once resulting in a kind of hybridization, has lately been somewhat reversed, depositing in the elegant French language such grotesque neologisms as un pin's or hip hop.