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Loss of philological purity: Hybrid vigor or mongrelism?
Author(s) -
Neumann Paul E.
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
clinical anatomy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.667
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1098-2353
pISSN - 0897-3806
DOI - 10.1002/ca.23062
Subject(s) - philology , purebred , medicine , hybrid , preference , linguistics , statistics , botany , mathematics , philosophy , ecology , biology , law , breed , feminism , political science
Although disparaged by philologists, hybrid words enrich technical and scientific vocabularies. They are common, so, like it or not, they are here to stay. On the other hand, where there are pre‐existing purebred compound or affixed words, they should generally be given preference over hybrids. Some adjectives (e.g., laryngeus and sphenoideus ) are discussed to illustrate these recommendations. Clin. Anat. 31:771–773, 2018. © 2018 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.