Word Creation - Blimpworthy

If you are wondering which sporting event to watch this weekend, you may want to take the blimpworthiness factor of the options into consideration; Goodyear sure hopes you do.

Goodyear recently coined a new word in the name of marketing. Through the creative use of compounding and affixing, Goodyear wants sports fans to vote for the event they feel is most "blimpworthy" in a new series of ESPN online polls. By voting in the polls, sports fans help to determine which sports events the blimps will appear at on particular weekends.

More information about Goodyear and the polls here and here.

The Second in a Series of Occasional Linguistics Quizzes

Two words from the following list share an affix.

Do you know which two and why?

wetter

manner

ruler

fewer

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The answer is: wetter and fewer

The words wetter and fewer both contain the inflectional, comparative -er suffix.

The word ruler contains the derivational -er suffix, changing the verb rule to the noun ruler.

The word manner is a single morpheme and does not have a suffix.

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In morphology, the same forms do not always have the same functions.