Multiple processes
Although we have concentrated on each of these word-formation processes in isolation, it is possible to trace the operation of more than one processes at work in the creation of particular word. For example, the term of deli seems to have become a common American English expression via a process of first borrowing delicatessen (from German) and then clipping that borrowed form. If someone says that problems with the project have snowballed. The final word can be analyzed as an example of compounding in which snow and ball were combined to form the noun snowballed, which was then turned into a verb through conversation. Forms that begin as acronyms can also go through other processes, as in the use of lase as a verb, the result of backformation from laser. In the expression waspish attitudes, the acronym WASP (“white Angelo-Saxon Protestant”) has lost its