Lalić Krstin, Gordana Silaški, Nadežda English today 34(2) application/pdf 149065 bytes From Brexit to Bregret : An account of some Brexit-induced neologisms in English http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode eng https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:29038 doi:10.1017/S0266078417000530 ISSN: 0266-0784 info:eu-repo/semantics/article xtract The UK's June 2016 decision to withdraw from the European Union, popularly referred to as Brexit, has had a major political, financial and economic impact worldwide. However, the impact was also linguistic as this event has generated a myriad of neologisms in English, such as breferendum, brexiteer, Brexitsphere, regrexit or Brexitology. The aim of the present study is to give a general overview of these new words, to establish the predominant word-formational patterns as well as to point out the creativity and speed with which speakers of English have reacted linguistically to this change in the socio-political context. 2018