-ISM
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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-ISM. A noun-forming
SUFFIX, three of whose uses relate to language: (1) Forming words for concepts, activities, and conditions:
agrammatism,
biculturalism,
bilingualism,
criticism,
descriptivism,
feminism,
journalism,
literary criticism,
multiculturalism,
obscurantism,
plagiarism,
prescriptivism,
racism,
sexism,
symbolism. (2) Forming linguistic and stylistic terms:
anachronism,
aphorism,
archaism,
barbarism,
classicism,
colloquialism,
dysphemism,
euphemism initialism,
malapropism,
neologism,
regionalism,
solecism,
syllogism,
truism,
verbalism,
witticism. (3) Forming words that identify usages as belonging to particular varieties of English:
Americanism,
Anglicism,
Australianism,
Briticism,
Canadianism,
Gallicism,
Indianism,
Irishism,
Latinism,
New Zealandism,
Scotticism.
The suffix is widely used with considerable freedom and flexibility to label any regional or local usage, such as a
Newfoundlandism or a
New Yorkism, and for nonce purposes, as in: Simon Hoggart's
‘Bushism of the week’, in the
Observer magazine during 1989, referring to the usage of US President George Bush. When asked to comment on the fall of the Berlin Wall, Bush is reported to have said: ‘I wouldn't want to say this kind of development makes things to be moving too quickly at all … so I'm not going to hypothecate that it may—anything goes too fast’ (17 Dec. 1989). Compare
-ESE,
-SPEAK. See
POLITICALLY CORRECT.
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