Clipping and Blending

Clipping, Blending, and compound words

*Clipping- known as truncation or shortening. It is a word formation process which consist of the reduction of a word.
When I'm in high school, I knew clipping as just clipping. Reducing of a word-- blah blah..But now I learned that there are types of it.
A.) Back clipping- commonly used, where the beginning is being retained. Ex: examination
B.) Fore clipping- the ending of a word is being retained. Ex: telephone
C.) Middle clipping- the middle part of the word is retained. Ex: influenza

*Blending- is a word formed from two or more words. Clipping involves in blending because you cut first the part of the words before you combine them.
Ex: email (electronic + mail )
Blending help us in the way we are making new words by combining them. Especially when there's something new to us people and we're making name of it.