Blog # 5

1. Birthday

Etymology: "anniversary celebration of someone birth (usually a king or saint at first) ; see birth + day. Meaning "day on which one is born is from 1570's Birthnight is attested from 1620's.

Word Formation: Birth and Day

Morphemes: Birth=stem, Day=suffix

2. Airplane: Though the original references are british, the word caught on in American English where it largely supersded earlier aeroplane. Aircraft "airplane" also is from 1907. Lord Byron, speculatively used air-vessel (1822).

Word Formation: Air and Plane

Morphemes: Air=stem, Plane=suffix

3. Fireman: "tender of a fire", from fire + man. As "person hired to put out (rather thab tend) fires" it is attested from 1714.

Word Formation: Fire and Man

Morphemes: Fire=stem, Plane=suffix

4. Cupcake: 1828, American English, from cup + cake, probably from the cups they are baked in, but possibly from small measures of ingredients used to make. Meaning "attrative young woman" is recorded from 1930's, American English.

Word Formation: Cup and Cake

Morphemes: Cup=stem, Cake=Suffix

5. Boyfriend: "woman's paramour", 1909 from boy + friend

Word Formation: Boy and Friend

Morphemes: Boy=stem, Friend=suffix

Blog # 4

1. The rise of social networking affects language use? Social networking works both ways from how people use it and what they get out of it. People depend on social networking to help them out with the basic of language. What people get out of it is learning new things such as im, texting and email and learning abbrevations such as LOL (laughing out loud) or BRB ( be right back). I believe the affect of social networking make people lazy and use it as an advanatage.

2. The internet and other technologies reduces it's necessity because everyone rely on the internet and put all of their trust towards it.