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 ...

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 ...

audio: While speakers of English and other Western languages prefer using suffixes more than prefixes, a new study reveals that this preference is not as universal as once thought. These findings ...