Question

Will we continue to make new words to use in english?

Answer 1

The method of creating a new word is to add a prefix to an already existing one. Most of the new words are just old words with different forms and meanings.

Answer 2

The commonest method of creating a new word is to add a prefix or suffix to an existing one. Hence realisation (1610s), democratise (1798), detonator (1822), preteen (1926), hyperlink (1987) and monogamish (2011). The inverse of the above: the creation of a new root word by the removal of a phantom affix.