alphabet for the prefixes..r In fact, back in the 1790-ies the French too objected very much against those crazy greek prefixes. Eventually they got used to them. Perhaps, even the Americans

) abbreviations, combining forms, prefixes, and suffixes; and (d) brand names for drugs

Question: do I have the names right in the following table? In particular, are the "in old UK System" names correct? Are they all really old (no longer used)? Are they just UK, or are/were they ever in use other places? NAMED POWERS OF

Thanks. For me, as a non-native English-user, the re-prefix has a very distinctive meaning of repetition. I thought that perhaps there were two homophonous prefixes involved, with distinct

should be using the Greek alphabet for the prefixes..r Who'd pay to change all the theatre signs?

mebi- et al: those cutesy 2 ^ prefixes. A lot of people pronounce gif (as in the graphic file format) as "jiff", whereas I say it similar to "gift". Well, you are wrong, wrong

Evan Kirshenbaum and J.J. Lodder write: Interesting. For me the ... people who would alphabetize it under W regardless of capitalization? I would expect all surnames that have 'prefixes' (de

Both the prefixes un- and in- carry the sense of negation in English. Can anybody think of a word that came into our language with the in- prefix used for negation after the start of the 20th

Both the prefixes un- and in- carry the sense of negation in English. Can anybody think of a word that came into our language with the in- prefix used for negation after the start of the 20th

) the general rule should be to insert a hyphen. But some prefixes, especially those of one syllable, can