Speakers of English are adept at creating new terms by stringing together parts of other words. This is often accomplished by tacking a prefix onto the beginning of a word (as inprosocialormicrotransaction), or by appending a suffix to a word’s end (as inbracketologyorbinge...
“Schizophrenia” comes from a combination of the prefix “schizo-” and the suffix “-phrenia,” both of which are borrowed from Ancient Greek. “Schizo-” (σχίζω) means "to split" and is related to word “schism.”“-Phrenia” (ϕρην) refers to the soul or the mind. ...
Words like more, increasing, abundant, beneficial, above, exceptional and most words with the suffix -ful (skillful, beautiful, delightful, powerful) are considered positive words. Use them when you’re trying to embolden and uplift your audience. Nike’s “Just Do It” is a great example of...
the similarities between "conjugations" and "congratulations" – the prefix, the suffix, the length, and the plural – tell us that our mental lexicon is
In English and many other languages, you can modify the meaning of a word or change its grammatical role by adding a prefix before the root word, as inun-happy, or else by sticking on a suffix afterward, as inhappi-ness. However, English, like most languages in the world, h...