Stan Carey at Sentence first: We can show this linguistic fad as having two main stereotyped patterns or formulas, which overlap morphologically. For type 1, we take a word or short phrase, clip (i. , truncate, abbreviate) the first stressed syllable, add a y-suffix, and reduce the next word or str.
, truncate, abbreviate) the first stressed syllable, add a y-suffix, and reduce the next word or str.