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AB -  are needed to describe the technology itself, as well as the ways that we interact with it. As Paul mcFedries observed in a 2015 article, we live in "an era that seems particularly determined to bring computers and other `smart' devices ever closer to the people using them, and to generate new words and phrases that reflect this increased proximity." (Paul mcFedries, "ever Closer to the machine," IEEE Spectrum, june 2015, 26, http://ieeexplore .ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?arnumber=7115555). While the gadgets may be novel, the methods of word formation to describe them--and our interactions with them--are tried and true. One productive morphological avenue uses the -able or -ible suffix to create adjectives and associated nouns. many of these -able words appear to be patterned on the model of wearable. As an adjective meaning "capable of being worn," wearable is dated by the Oxford English Dictionary back to 1590, and its noun sense, "a wearable commodity," dates to 1711. in a recent update, the OED added new senses for the adjective and noun, relating to devices that can be worn. A 1934 advertisement in the New York Times offered a hearing aid billed as a "small wearable device [that] conveys sound through the 
TI - Among the New Words
JF - American Speech: A Quarterly of Linguistic Usage
DO - 10.1215/00031283-3701048
DA - 2016-08-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/duke-university-press/among-the-new-words-A440ZM7j0m
SP - 361
VL - 91
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -