alleryStart learning →Coinages as a source of new synonyms are often motivated by what?
ABusiness profit
BPoetic metre
CLinguistic purism
DTelegraph brevity
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: C. Linguistic purism
Purists coin native words to replace borrowed ones, as foreword replaced preface.
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