IOSR Journal Of Humanities And Social Science (IOSR-JHSS) Volume 18, Issue 3 (Nov. - Dec. 2013), PP 25-35 e-ISSN: 2279-0837, p-ISSN: 2279-0845. www.iosrjournals.org www.iosrjournals.org 25 | Page The Burgeoning Usage of Neologisms in Contemporary English Bhagavan Behera 1 , Priyadarshani Mishra 2 1 Department of Business Studies, Konark Institute of Science and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (India) 2 Department of English, Konark Institute of Science and Technology, Bhubaneswar, Odisha (India) Abstract: Change is the law of the nature. Nothing changes like change and today’s trendy English language is also predisposed to the same. Every Language is a vivacious observable fact. Even though English has a critical nucleus of words which are elementary to sentence formation and have remained unswerving over centuries, there are also a good number of words which both penetrate and relinquish the language with the efflux of time, a straight mirror image of the obsession of society in any particular epoch. Some new words are momentary, coupled with educational or scientific concepts which become paler in implication and the rest hang about the itinerary, more often than not for the reason that they symbolize concepts which have developed into enduring attributes of civilization. Therefore the drive for novelty should not be undermined. A large amount of new words do not fit to the proper language but to the colloquial one, these neologisms are not chronicled in dictionaries and they may immediately be done away with when new ones emerge. Nevertheless where do all these innovative words that navigate or permeate into the English language. In this paper I endeavored to seize a closer gaze at the modus operandi by which new words are coined, demonstrating that new words and phrases are far more about redesigning than actual configuration. Keywords: Applepick, Backronym, E- Mind, Mall-Rats, Prosumer, Scientology, Tweeple, Winterval I. Introduction Language is persistently embryonic. As a living system it acclimatizes to meet the evolution of life, civilization and the scientology savvy world. Every aspect of the life of a people is reflected in the words they use to talk about themselves and the world around them. As the world changes – through invention, discovery, revolution, evolution, creation and personal transformation - so does the language. Like the growth rings of a tree, our vocabulary bears witness to our past. Words and expressions take birth, live momentarily and then perish or locate their place in dictionary according to the transient or enduring character of the phenomena they portray. Neologisms outline an extremely pertinent linguistic class for several causes – they are the elements that make a language living and dynamic rather than dead, they are indicative of language change, they form a serious impediment in computational study and translation, and they assist to illustrate fruitful morphology of a language. Sans any reservation it can be said that English language today has become the most used language globally. New words have been entering English at an ever increasing rate. Although this phenomenon is often associated with new things, processes, and concepts that need names, there is also a great increase, indeed acceleration, in clever, trendy, eye-and-ear-catching words. All through the past three decades the advances in technology, and communication media brought extensive revolution in the English language. Also, with the development of social and natural sciences, there have appeared a range of specialized vocabulary items in such areas as: television, medical and atomic research, aviation, radio and many others. English has usually borrowed words from other languages in order to use them as new words in covering of new concepts or various abstract phenomena. Above all nowadays, with the progress of diverse inventions and innovations, a significant number of new words have appeared in the English language many of which are still unfamiliar to many people. The rationale for choosing this particular assertion is the high topicality and importance of new words in our life. Furthermore, it is very fascinating to map out the basis, ways of configuration and progress of neologisms. The paper throws a bird‘s eye view on the process of creating new words or, in linguistic terms, neologisms and a snail‘s eye view on the linguistic celebration of the digital world. II. Nascence and Definitions of Neologism English developed slowly before the introduction of printing in the 15 th century. The centuries following the Renaissance (16 th and 17 th centuries) were a time when many new words came into English. The 18 th century was a quiet period for neologism. The term neologism is first attested in English in 1772, borrowed from French néologisme (1734). Technology and social change have the main driving forces behind neologism since the19 th century. At present, the vocabulary of English is expanding faster than ever.