ABSTRACT
A coinage is a new word formed according to the phonological possibilities of the language. Because of the many methods of word formation available to English users, coining is relatively rare, except in advertising and in the creation of trade names. Monosyllabic coinages tend to exploit hitherto unused slots in the language. For example, there are a number of monosyllabic words consisting of a consonant+-id:
bid did hid kid lid
but not all possibilities are used:
*cid fid gid jid
A coinage could thus be created by using one of these vacant slots. Such a word would be analogous in form with other -id words but it would also be novel.
