William Gibson

Cyberspace' as a term is sort of over. It's over in the way that, after a certain time, people stopped using the suffix '-electro' to make things cool, because everything was electrical. 'Electro' was all over the early 20th century, and now it's gone. I think 'cyber' is sort of the same way.

American Writer

Callan McAuliffe

I originally envisioned myself doing something with the suffix 'ology' at the end of it, like marine biology or entomology. But after I started to do some acting gigs, I thought it wasn't a bad thing... I said to myself, 'I might as well keep riding this bus until the wheels fall off.

Australian Actor

Michael Chabon

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

American Author

Sandi Toksvig

English is full of Scandinavian words. Margate, Ramsgate, Billingsgate, any town with a 'gate' on it takes their suffix from the Danish word 'gade' which simply means 'street.

British Writer

Suffixes often change the part of speech of the original word, like turning verbs into nouns or adjectives.

Word Class Changes

Different suffixes modify the meaning of the base word in specific ways, revealing shades of meaning.

Meaning Adjustment

Suffixes that form new words are called derivational, they can create completely different words.

Derivational Suffixes

In computing, suffixing is a common practice, often used when referring to adding file extensions.

Suffixing Files

Computing systems can be programmed to suffix specific text automatically to save time.

Automate Processes

Suffixes in filenames help categorize and organize data efficiently, making it easier to locate files.

Data Organization

 which means the active and the suffix colar which means one does I'm an educator it is my job to lead my students out of the ignorance of racism we have been conditioned through the idea of three or four different races there aren't three or four different races of people on the face of the earth there's only one we

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 while in others, doing so could make the muffin eat the child. Morphology can also pose a problem. Slovene distinguishes between two children and three or more using a dual suffix absent in many other languages,

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 but not just any picking up -- it's picking up chicks. So they are artists of picking up chicks. And they call heartache "one-itis." In English, "itis" is a suffix that signifies infection.

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Meaning Adjustment

Derivational Suffixes

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