[Lexicog] new coining

[Mike Maxwell]

Someone asked awhile back what it took to coin new words, and have them
catch on.  Y'all have probably noticed that -ware is now a productive
derivational suffix (I guess) in English: beginning with software and
hardware, but now freeware, shareware, and (my favorite) treeware, along
with a host of others.

Now there's ransom-ware (hyphenated for now, but I doubt that will last):

   http://www.techtree.com/techtree/jsp/showstory.jsp?storyid=3992

Too early to say whether it will catch on, but I'm betting it will.
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	Mike Maxwell
	Linguistic Data Consortium
	maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu


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