In the process of hypocorism, a long word is reduced to a single syllable. For an example television to made into telly. I found it interesting that you can take a long word and make it a single syllable. Backformation is when a noun is reduced to form a verb. I never heard the word backformation before. I didn’t know the definition of the word until reading this chapter. An example of backformation is the word babysitter was formed into the word babysit. Verbs are words like to nasty or to empty. Nouns are words like water, juice, or crazy. I didn’t know the word yuppie was used for students in the USA who was protesting against the war in Vietnam. I never learned that piece of information in History and it was interesting for me to learn