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  • noun Plural form of hypocorism.

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  • But when hypocorisms become established they sometimes show all these forms (Com, Commie and Commo all gain entry to the Australian Pocket Oxford Dictionary as colloquial variants of Communist).

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol VII No 2 1980

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