...I think...possibly...anyway I recently reread some information on Hugo Gernsback, inventor of the genre of SF (the word at least - he set up a pulp dedicated to it)...he named his scientific fiction stories SCIENTIFICTION (I know it's a mouthful right?) and very shortly the TI bit disappeared and the word became SCIENCE FICTION and then later on SCIFI or SYFY and even later SF...I was wondering if any of you knew of any other words which started out longer and then sort of amalgamated into a shorter word (or two)? (I am also pretty sure that amalgamation is the wrong word but as I can't think of the word that I wanted it shall suffice)...SHEPHERD is one I think...from SHEEP HERDER?


(presque vu I believe it is called when you can't remember a word...you know 'it's on the tip of my tongue')

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