That'll do nicely, thanks I got a question concerning non-resembling . Supposing you were not linguistically creative, how would you paraphrase this? Is not resembling used then or do you normally use resemble as a verb, as in "The boys

Okay, here I am again. We had another couple to dinner last night and I noted two nonce-words, one from me and one from a guest. First - I was talking about a man who had broken up with his long-time girlfriend and describing how he'd told us

Thank you for the new bunch of words. I need to ask you a question - what do you make out of bornedness ? How come the -ed- is there? Thanks in advance!

I think the -ed is there to make the word sound more awkward and hence funnier. Also, of course the correct word is "born," so "borned" sounds like something an ignorant person would say, again making it a bit funnier.

The most common use I've seen is "anti-money laundering" which is the way it's used on government Web sites and a few non-profits that I saw. If the organization you're writing about it inconsistent in their own use,

In the first place, you need no hyphen if the whole thing is not an adjective: Harry Potter mania is sweeping the country. (noun) Harry-Potter -mania backlash has been violent. (an adjective, but awkward) Better: The backlash against Harry

Unfortunately "Anti Money Laundering" is the title of a curriculum I am working on as lead editor, so I can't avoid it. I've also seen it as the name of an organization (used randomly and nonchalantly both with and without a

Hi. I this this question is related to the tread topic. I was wondering how we could make sure that we need to hyphenate words to be a noun. Let us pretend that there is a very popular movie named xxx (and I think we should slant the title of the

There is no rule. Words with these prefixes have come about through accidents of history. The most ...
of this out of a dictionary. Dissertation on "Negative Prefixes" in English. "a-" is a Greek prefix

i think you might be after prefixes, root and suffixes.