Wood preservation a long-practised method and often used in today's carpentry workshops. Technological developments mean it is also possible to spray preservative over the surface of the timber. Some of the liquid is drawn into the wood as the result of capillary action before the spray runs off or evaporates, but unless puddling occurs penetration is limited and may not be suitable for long-term weathering. By using the spray method, coal-tar creosote, oil-borne solutions and water-borne salts (to some extent) can also be applied. A thorough brush or spray treatment with coal-tar creosote can add 1 to 3 years to the lifespan
English words of Greek origin and spread to the others freely—including to Modern Greek. Traditionally, these coinages were constructed using only Greek morphemes, "e.g.", "metamathematics", but increasingly, Greek, Latin, and other morphemes are combined, as in "television" (Greek τῆλε + Latin "vision"), "metalinguistic" (Greek μετά + Latin "lingua" + Greek -ιστής + Greek -ικος), and "garbology" (English "garbage" + Greek -ολογία). These hybrid words were formerly considered to be 'barbarisms'. Some derivations are idiosyncratic, for example, "gas" from χάος; "hadron" from ἁδρός with the suffix "-on", itself abstracted from "anion" ἀνιόν; and "henotheism" < ἑνό(ς) 'one' + θεός 'god', though "eno-" is not used as