Describe the principle of ease (minimization of effort) / principle of clarity as a mechanism of linguistic change. Use one example for illustration.
– Principal of Ease: o Assimilation (one sounds becomes more like a neighboring sound) Worked o Elision (loss of sounds) Baken -> to bake o Syncope (loss of a sound from the middle of a word) Castle; Christmas o Hapology (whole syllable dropped when two identical syllables follow each other) Anglaland -> Angland o Clipping of words Bicycle -> bike o Initialisms and acronyms BBC; NASA- Principal of Clarity (demands of communication) o Borrowing or formation of new words to compensate lack of words Brede -> bread; brede -> meat