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Clipping

Clipping is the way of shortening, realised by clipping off some part of a word, and removing the rest, with the result that the word acquires some linguistic value of its own (for example: phone from telephone, plane from airplane, flu from influenza). In this process not only words can be shortened but also whole phrases (for example: zoo is made from zoological gardens). In that case, a new obtained word is not really new as it is a stylistic option of already existing word.
More examples of clipping are: ad ← advertisement, condo ← condominium, demo ← demonstration, disco ← discotheque, fax ← telefax, lab ← laboratory, photo
← photography, prof ← professor (Minkova &Stockwell 2009).

2. Blending

Blending is a type of both shortening and compounding where two or more words are combined together into a new one, removing some parts from one or both words.
Ingo Plag (2003) in his book Word-formation distinguishes two types of blends. In the first type compounds are shortened in order to form a new word where the first element modifies the second. Therefore, a breath analyzer means a kind of analyzer (not a kind of breath), a motor camp is a kind of camp (not a kind of motor), etc. Examples are: breath + analyzer = breathalyzer, motor + camp = mocamp, motor + hotel = motel, science + fiction = sci-fi. In comparison with the first type, the basic words of the second type are usually not confirmed as compounds in their full form. Moreover, they denote objects that possess and share estates of both elements. Thus, a boatel means both a boat and a hotel, a brunch means either breakfast or lunch. More examples: boom
+ hoist = boost, channel + tunnel = chunnel, compressor + expander = compander, goat
+ sheep = geep, guess + estimate = guesstimate, modulator + demodulator = modem, sheep + goat = shoat, smoke + fog = smog, Spanish + English = Spanglish (Plag 2003).

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