Suffixes are attached to the end of a word using a few spelling rules, with some exceptions. Learn how to use the right suffix with BBC Bitesize KS3 English.

For the second time this year, a dictionary publisher has given its “Word of the Year” honor to something that is not a word. Merriam-Webster declared the suffix “-ism” as the word (except ...

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As a word by itself—which is to say, not as a suffix—ish means more or less the same thing: kind of, thereabouts, in a way. And imagining how it broke free to become syntactically stand-alone ...

The Oxford English Dictionary traces the “-trix” suffix to the 15th century, from medieval Latin. Sign up for CJR’s daily email It’s sometimes useful to have a feminine version of a noun, since ...

In politics, it takes little to turn a minor dust-up into a scandal. And thanks to the Nixon administration, American English now has a handy little suffix at the ready for the muckrakers: -gate.

Suffixes are a group of letters added at the end of a word to make a new word. Suffixes cause spelling changes. In the course of editing opinions, I often come across the words ‘firstly ...

The Suffix 'Ism' Is Merriam-Webster's 2015 Word Of The Year Merriam-Webster says its dictionary website has had very high traffic for words ending in i-s-m. Words such as racism, terrorism ...

Suffixes are as fruitful as they are underappreciated. And, the editors note, some non-ism entries also had a pretty spectacular year, especially minion, a word that 500 years ago referred to the ...