A reader asked me about prefixes just when I was thinking about suffixes, so I researched both. Together, they’re called affixes. That word is from the Latin word for the “act of fastening one thing ...

Vocabulary development is often the province of English/language arts instruction. But it’s also a core part of Deaquanita Lancelin’s 9th grade science class in the Pine Bluff schools in Arkansas.

Words are made up of roots, bases, stems, derivational endings, inflectional endings, and occasionally clitics. Not everyone agrees on these forms or on the names of them. This includes Katamba. If we ...