Citizendia
Your Ad Here

A nonce word is a word used only "for the nonce"—to meet a need that is not expected to recur. A word is a unit of Language that carries meaning and consists of one or more Morphemes which are linked more or less tightly together and has a Phonetic Quark, for example, was a nonce word in English appearing only in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake until Murray Gell-Mann quoted it to name a new class of subatomic particle. In Physics, a quark (kwɔrk kwɑːk or kwɑːrk is a type of Subatomic particle. James Augustine Aloysius Joyce (2 February 1882 &ndash 13 January 1941 was an Irish expatriate writer widely considered to be one of the most influential writers of the Finnegans Wake is a fictional work by James Joyce, published in 1939 Murray Gell-Mann (born September 15, 1929) is an American Physicist who received the 1969 Nobel Prize in physics for his work A subatomic particle is an elementary or composite Particle smaller than an Atom. The use of the term nonce word in this way was apparently the work of James Murray, the influential editor of the Oxford English Dictionary. James Augustus Henry Murray ( February 7, 1837 – July 26, 1915) was a Scottish Lexicographer and Philologist Editing Language, Images or Sound through correction condensation organization and other modifications in various media The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English

Nonce words frequently arise through the combination of an existing word with a familiar prefix or suffix, in order to meet a particular need (or as a joke). An affix is a Morpheme that is attached to a stem to form a word In Grammar, a suffix (also postfix, ending) is an Affix which is placed at the end of a word See also Mathematics of humor A joke is a short story or ironic depiction of a situation communicated with the intent of being humorous. The result is a special kind of pseudoword: although it would not be found in any dictionary, it is instantly comprehensible (e. A pseudoword is a unit of speech or text that appears to be an actual word in a certain language (at least superficially while in fact it is not part of the Lexicon. A dictionary is a book of alphabetically listed Words in a specific language with definitions etymologies pronunciations and other information or a book of alphabetically g. , bananular phone). Bananaphone is the name of a children's Album released in 1994 If the need recurs (or the joke is widely enjoyed), nonce words easily enter regular use (initially as neologisms) just because their meaning is obvious. A neologism (from Greek neo = "new" + logos = "word" is a word that although devised relatively recently in a specific time period has been

Nonce words are often created as part of pop culture and advertising campaigns. Popular culture (or pop culture) is the Culture — patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activities significance and importance — Advertising is a form of Communication that typically attempts to persuade potential Customers to Purchase or to consume more of a particular Brand

In cryptography, a nonce is a random, arbitrary number that is generated for security purposes and is used one time only. Cryptography (or cryptology; from Greek grc κρυπτός kryptos, "hidden secret" and grc γράφω gráphō, "I write" In Security engineering, a nonce stands for number used once (it is similar in spirit to a Nonce word)

The term should not be confused with the British slang word nonce, meaning a sex offender. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce (sometimes spelled "nonse" is a Slang word used to refer to a Sex offender A sex offender is a person who has been criminally charged and convicted of or has pled guilty to or pled Nolo contendere to a Sex crime.

Examples

See also

A hapax legomenon ( or) (pl hapax legomena, though sometimes called hapaxes for short is a word which occurs only once in the written record of A neologism (from Greek neo = "new" + logos = "word" is a word that although devised relatively recently in a specific time period has been A sniglet is a Neologism defined as "any word that doesn't appear in the dictionary but should"

Dictionary

nonce word

-noun

  1. (lexicography) A word invented for the occasion.
© 2009 citizendia.org; parts available under the terms of GNU Free Documentation License, from http://en.wikipedia.org
 Dapyx Software network: MP3 Explorer | Ebook Manager | Zenithic