Search results for 'Affix'

Re: English

clive — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 17:32:15 GMT

Hi, You need a capital letter and punctuation. 'Affix' can also be followed by 'to'. Clive

Re: 100% synonyms?

mister micawber — Wed, 06 May 2009 10:42:28 GMT

. Of course not; very few-- if any-- are. The affix 'pre-' means 'before', and that color is added to the two words here that bear it. Otherwise, differential collocations among synonyms always exist. .

Re: The Analysis of Analytical Languages

anonymous — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 15:56:25 GMT

I do not. Perhaps due to the bias I have as a native English speaker, I believe concepts that rely on the establishment of the relationships between people and objects, objects and other objects, and people and time are most easily understood universally through one or (as is often the case in German-English dialogue) more than one preposition, rather than through affixes. In the large, meanings are understood better when the item that distinguishes its meaning is largest, as usually prepositions constitute larger morphemic units than do affixes, which essentially seek to accomplish the same goal: establishing relationships between people, things, and time (among many other aspects of grammar). Take, for example, German. In German,...

Re: How affix affect stress pattern?

califjim — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:08:50 GMT

Typical Greek suffixes. Primary stress on the third syllable from the end. (First vowel shown may vary.) ocracy, opathy, otony, otany, otomy, ophony, ology, onomy, otrophy, ogamy, ography, ophany, osophy, ognomy, ogony, omaly, opoly, ogeny, ochrony, ochromy, olatry, omathy, ometry, onymy, oscopy, otropy, ometer, opolis, anthropy, abola Also: -ysis, -esis, but NOT -osis. Instead of the -y ending, these can have -ize (onomize, opolize), -ous (ogamous, omalous), -ist (onomist, ometrist), -ism (ologism), or -er (onomer, ographer). Ex: democracy, monotony, lobotomy, theology, atrophy, geography, philosophy, anomaly, monopoly, synchrony, idolatry, trigonometry, barometer, metropolis, parabola,...

Re: How affix affect stress pattern?

alienvoord — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:38:39 GMT

not about stress shift, but you might find it interesting: trisyllabic laxing

Re: How affix affect stress pattern?

mno3195 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 17:15:00 GMT

Mister Micawber wrote: Offhand, I would say that the addition of affixes other than negative or negative-like prefixes do not generally affect word stress, since they are usually unstressed themselves-- but that there are also many exceptions. I don't know of any dedicated websites, though most grammar sites probably mention it in passing. Try googling around a bit. Thanks,how about suffixes?

Re: How affix affect stress pattern?

mister micawber — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 08:54:56 GMT

Offhand, I would say that the addition of affixes other than negative or negative-like prefixes do not generally affect word stress, since they are usually unstressed themselves-- but that there are also many exceptions. I don't know of any dedicated websites, though most grammar sites probably mention it in passing. Try googling around a bit.

How affix affect stress pattern?

mno3195 — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 07:55:14 GMT

Hi folks: I would like to know some details about how affix cause stress shift espeicially in multi-syllable words. I heard that Latin and Greek suffix play an important role in stress shift.Any detail or recommend website that I can refer to?Any website regarding stress patterns or how suffix causing stress shift I can refer to? Thanks

Re: Connection words

peaceblinkfriend — Mon, 11 Jun 2007 03:45:41 GMT

Wow. Thank you for sharing that, Pucca. It really helps us, non-native English speakers, to identify the degree of fomality of those expressions. Best wishes, PBF PS Perhaps the moderators could affix this thread to the "Common English Questions and Answers - Archived Posts" forum.

Re: John Locke on the diversity of opinions

mister micawber — Sun, 10 Jun 2007 12:44:22 GMT

If I may, I will affix this to the head of the forum, Forbes, thank you.

Re: Ungrent! Word Structure - Morphology~ Please help

mister micawber — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 15:21:46 GMT

This looks a lot like homework to me, Civic. Why don't you Google some of these terms?-- inflection, adverb, affix, compound noun .

Ungrent! Word Structure - Morphology~ Please help

civicjai_11 — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 07:07:06 GMT

Consider the following passage an answer the questions that follow: Whether we eat at his place or mine, Ryan usually prepares the meal. Tonight I'd volunteered. I cook well, but not instinctively. I need recipes. Arriving home at six, I spent a few minutes recapping my day for Birdie, then took out the folder in which I stuff menus clipped from the Gazette. A five-minute search produced a winner. Grilled Chicken breast with melon salsa. Wild Rice. Tortilla with arugula salad. (a) Name four different types of inflection and give one example of each taken from the passage above. (b) Find two adverbs in the passage that are derived from adjectives; Write them down and underline the affix that changed them from an adjective to an...

Re: two questions

anonymous — Wed, 30 May 2007 07:56:31 GMT

Mister Micawber wrote: By using the word qua word, it becomes nominalized. Look at your own sentence: " where would you say is the modification by 'the' (prepositional phrase, 'the' is the noun object) in that sentence is taking place? 'The' must be modifying a noun, isn't it? ('The' is the noun subject of the question)". ' -Ing ' too is a noun object of ' with '-- here, a mere affix has been nominalized! Thank you, Mr. M. How do we know when to treat a nominalized noun as countable and uncountable. What I have been doing so far is to treat the kinds of it as an uncountable noun. a '-ing' or just 'ing' ?

Re: two questions

mister micawber — Tue, 29 May 2007 03:24:22 GMT

By using the word qua word, it becomes nominalized. Look at your own sentence: " where would you say is the modification by 'the' (prepositional phrase, 'the' is the noun object) in that sentence is taking place? 'The' must be modifying a noun, isn't it? ('The' is the noun subject of the question)". ' -Ing ' too is a noun object of ' with '-- here, a mere affix has been nominalized!

Poem: Different Standards

triquediqual — Wed, 09 May 2007 20:26:04 GMT

Different Standards Life is but a fragile thing so easily shattered, These objects, destructive yet easily controlled, Are life-destroyers, mutating hit bodies in alien shapes, So much so that we accept it, acknowledge it, do it. We must halt, ourselves and these objects of destruction. We do it, do it to an extent of allowing it, why? Why allow shattered bodies, twisted torsos, lost life, Do we enjoy our actions? Preventable actions, actions That should never occur, souls created on a daily basis, Rising away from the trouble, the crash,…the families. What standards need upheaval? Will people ever learn? “Safety” recollects, repeats, reiterates after accidents,...

Transformational Rules and Subject-Verb Agreement

anonymous — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:15:00 GMT

My question may be a little strange...but I appreciate any help I can get. Given a passive sentence: "The subjects have been captured by the officer"... ...and applying transformational rules to the underlying structure... Underlying Structure: The officer past have en capture the suspect. Passive Transformation: The suspect past have en be en capture by the officer. Affix-Hopping: The suspect have+past be+en capture+en by the officer. How does subject-verb agreement come into play? As a native english speaker I would say "The officer has captured the suspect" or "The suspects have been captured by the officer." It is unclear to me wether subject-verb agreement must be taken into account before or after the passive transformation....

Re: How and where to use negative prefixes like un-,dis,non-,etc?

anonymous — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 06:28:33 GMT

If anything I would say it is regressive since the affix is changing depending on the following phonemes. Ill try to figure it out and report back in a few minutes.

Re: affix vs attatch

clive — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 13:32:55 GMT

Hi, In terms of general usage, you'll hear 'attached' very commonly and 'affixed' almost never. Best wishes, Clive

Re: affix vs attatch

marius hancu — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:59:04 GMT

>attatch --------- ATTACH suggests strongly a connection or union, a bond or link to prevent motion or keep one thing with another < attach a cover by means of a brass hinge> < attach a card to the package> <guinea fowl attach themselves firmly to the place where they were born -- F.D.Smith & Barbara Wilcox> AFFIX is sometimes interchangeable with FASTEN or ATTACH < affix a card to the package> but usually implies attachment by the imposition of one thing upon another, es

affix vs attatch

tung quoc — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 11:34:36 GMT

Hi, 1/Do affix and attatch have the same meaning?Are they interchangeable? If not, what is the difference in menaing btw them? 2/Do affixed document and attatch document have the same meaning?Are they interchangeable? If not, what is the difference in menaing btw them? Q

Re: Will English be the global language in the future?

englishuser — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 08:56:17 GMT

Anonymous wrote: I have read an article which predicted English will be the global language inevitably. Are there any different opinions? Nothing is inevitable. And there are other options. For instance, we could start using Esperanto when communicating with people from other language groups. I, for one, would be more than happy to switch to Esperanto should it gain more popularity. Esperanto is a completely logical language, with no irregularities as far as grammar is concerned, and new words can easily be created using an affix-system in Esperanto. Also, Esperanto is not the native language of any particular group of people in the way as English is the native language of the British and the Americans and a handful of...

Re: Word stems

califjim — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 07:09:51 GMT

anti-, micro-, re-, -tion, -ish, etc. are not stems (roots); they are affixes. In bluish , blue is a stem and ish is an affix. In convenience , ven is a stem, and con- and -ence are affixes. There are thousands of roots in English. I doubt there is a list of them. They can sometimes be easy to identify, though, especially if there are a lot of words with the same root and different affixes: expel, repel, propel, for example, show pel as a root. CJ

Re: Prefix, stem, suffix

mister micawber — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:54:09 GMT

Affix = prefix or suffix . Ir of irritable appears to be neither, at least in English, as it comes from L. irritatus , from pp. stem of irritare 'excite, provoke.'

Re: Prefix, stem, suffix

anonymous — Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:41:21 GMT

Agreed. Take for example irritable ' ir ' is a prefix when used in irresponsible, but in the case of irritable, it is used as an affix. And -able is the suffix. ^_^ Prefix and Suffix are able to be 'heard' and 'see' whether it is accurate. (this is used for last resort) {my name is not anonymous, thank you }

Re: sign and affix your seal on the contract

nona the brit — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:19:02 GMT

You could say sign your name if you really wanted to but it is not necessary and does sound a bit odd actually, everyone knows that when you sign something, you are signing your name. That is what sign means. Common phrases 'sign here;sign on the dotted line; sign a contract; sign below; sign in the box'

sign and affix your seal on the contract

anonymous — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 07:08:12 GMT

"You shall sign and affix your seal on the contract. " I feel that "your name" is missing after "sign" in the above sentence. Can someone make some comments on this sentence? Thank you.

Finding examples

aro — Sun, 05 Feb 2006 11:33:24 GMT

Hello guys! I need to find examples for the following word-formations: back-formation: Instead of forming new and longer items by adding affixes to words, this process works the other way round, as a shorter word is created by removing a real or imagined affix. I already have: - televice - baby-sit but I can't think of more, would be great If you would Blends : New words are created by joining party of other words. - brunch - telex - smog - Eurovision Also here I need more Neologisms : Creations of completely new words or phrases. - Trojan Horse - Flatrate ..... Conversion : With the process words undergo a change of word class without the attachment of an affix. - to bottle - to paper - a natural -...

KiB, MiB, KB, MB are prefixes or suffixes?

mcored — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:49:52 GMT

Hi Guys, By definition: prefix is a type of affix that precedes the morphemes to which it can attach. A suffix is an affix that succeeds the morphemes to which it can attach. So when you say 700 MiB, is "MiB" really a prefix or a suffix? It's amazing to see almost every popular article use the phrases "binary prefixes", "SI prefixes" etc. For example: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SI_prefix http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html Why they use the word "prefix" instead of "suffix" is beyond me. Can anybody please explain? Thank you in advance, McoreD<

Re: Present

languagelover — Fri, 23 Sep 2005 21:31:55 GMT

As to your question about the affix -ic , well, language works in different ways and makes use of different methods of word formation. Not all the words derive the same way, have a closer look at your mother tongue and you'll see for yourself. There are different reasons for that, you can read a book on morphology to get a better perspective. One reason is the fact that not all the borrowed words are entered the language at the same time, or from a single source. An alternative affix might had not been present at the time the word was borrowed or invented! An affix can die, lose its productivity, at some time, .... And the situation is the same amongst all the languages, just they adopt their own way of working things out .... Hope...

Re: I need your comment on "future tense"

mrpedantic — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 22:46:05 GMT

Roro wrote: Hello MrPedantic. I have an off-topic-question, As to the word〖preposition〗which you kindly forced on me. The following is its definition (from Webster's online dictionary): ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ 1. A function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word. 2. (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached). ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ My question is: why one of the section in this EnglishForums is named【Words, puns, jokes and...

Re: I need your comment on "future tense"

roro — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 10:00:57 GMT

Dear Pastel. Did you know this pictorial symbol? ⎝谷⎠ (Oh my God...) I remember using it for the first time when all of my data were vanished, in a flash, because of my lack of care. I like it, though! For those who don't know Kanji: this hieroglyph ..谷.. means 'valley.' ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ (Pastel. What happened? I hope I didn't hurt you by my careless words. If so, let me know. Let's enjoy discussing. I think I understand you. That is: The context & the speaker's intention are the most important factors. But there's no rule at all..? I wonder. I'm interested in your question, but I don't think I'm wrong at all. Well... I'll keep quiet a bit. I try, at least!) ┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈┈ ...

Arabic, Persian, and in between

languagelover — Sun, 24 Apr 2005 22:25:34 GMT

Hi Ali, Sorry for the delay in the replying to your mail. First of all, thanks a lot for your patience with me. And the second, here comes the sweet discussion of the influence of the Arabic language over Persian! It's quite interesting for me that there are many among the Westerners who think that we speak Arabic (and we dress, et cetra, the same way, since we are Arabs too), and now I'm quite shocked that you do not know how much our language is affected by Arabic after Islam. Persian is different from Urdu, though they are from the same origin. In fact, I've noticed a lot of words that are in use in both of the languages, though with a slightly different pronounciation, and sometimes with different meanings. Because as you know,...

Re: When to use would and when to use could

cacarr — Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:23:57 GMT

That's interesting, equivical. What is the nature of the inflection? Tense is a morphological thing: Smoke -Present Tense Smoked -Past Tense Will smoke = future time. See that the verb is without an affix of any kind? There is no future tense in English. We use a modal to refer to future time. Could Coulded? Would Woulded?

Re: I was worth driving

casi — Sun, 27 Feb 2005 10:33:51 GMT

I wanted to know that I was worth driving 10 miles in the rain to get a piece of lemon meringue pie. Once I did that, I know the pie was unimportant. 1. If someone else drove ten miles to get pie for you, then I wanted to know if I was worth the ten mile drive to get pie is fine. (Cf. You are worth it; X = Y) But given our context above, "I" is awkward. You did the driving. 2a. "not" is an adverb. It modifies verbs; it occurs after the auxiliary: The pie was not important. "not" negates the copular equation: X is Y becomes X is not Y. 2b. "un-" is an affix, notably a prefix, and it modifies adjectives: The pie was un important. "un-" negates the adjective: X is Y becomes X is un Y. The difference between 2a....

Re: longest English word

strangeboy — Wed, 22 Dec 2004 17:27:25 GMT

floccinaucinihilipilification: derives from the latin 'flocci non facio...' = "I don't give a hang for..." and is the longest English word stated as an actual 'word'. Chemicals DO NOT count. 'nihil' is the latin for 'nothing' and 'ification' is the English affix for 'the state of being'. Incidentally, 'flocci' alone means 'fluffy' in English. I think we had better leave the rest alone... Therefore: Sidling lazily down the road on a summer's afternoon (raining, then, probably) I may say to myself, 'I am in perfect floccinaucinihilipilification'. Then, of course, I find my shoeslaces are undone, trip over them and fall face down in the gutter. Alas! The emotion is gone. ;) For the sake of Sweet Mint Tea add me to Msn! I have no...

Re: Lack of\in

maverick88 — Sat, 11 Dec 2004 23:38:18 GMT

I think you misunderstood my question I asked " when I have to use "lack in" and when - "lack of" I mean when I have to affix "of" and when "in"

Re: Prefix, stem, suffix

pastel — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 18:44:24 GMT

A word is made of three parts, prefix; root, stem, or base; and suffix. Not really. For example, the and banana. (1)precisely is pre + cise + ly (all three, prefix, root and suffix) (2)concise is con + cise (prefix and root) (3)scissors - cise (root) (1)Correct. 'Cise' is a bound base or you say bound base which need to be conjointed with other morphemes, that is, they can't form words themselves. 'Cise' is not a word. You need to attach a prefix 'pre.' (2)Correct. (3)From Online Etymology Dictionary c.1384, sisoures, from O.Fr. cisoires (pl.) "shears," from V.L. *cisoria (pl.) "cutting instrument," from *cisus (in compounds such as L. excisus, pp. of excidere "to cutout"), ult. from L. cædere "to...

Re: Prefix, stem, suffix

mister micawber — Thu, 07 Oct 2004 22:44:25 GMT

I quote Trask: 'A root is the simplest form of a lexical morpheme, from which all other forms are built up. For example, the Latin verb meaning love has the root 'am-'; from this are formed the various stems , such as present 'ama-' and perfect 'amav-', from which in turn are constructed complete word-forms.' 'Base - the item to which an affix is added.' To me, that suggests that a base is a vaguer word including the other two-- it seems a more useful word to refer to what is actually being used as a stem or root in a particular case.

Re: Hiya everybody! My first question...

mister micawber — Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:22:32 GMT

Bienvenido al English Forums, Reme. From Trask, Language and Linguistics : "Clitic: a grammatical item which appears to be less than a word but more than an affix. Enclitic: a clitic which is phonologically attached to what precedes it, such as -n't in couldn't . Proclitic: a clitic which precedes the thing it is bound to. In the French sentence, Il te le donnera , the three pronouns are all proclitics bound to the following verb." I would be interested in seeing the examples you have, Reme.

Re: Prefix, suffix and roots

mister micawber — Thu, 02 Sep 2004 10:29:12 GMT

Here's a start: It depends on the meaning of the word, and of course the location of the affix, since a prefix by definition goes on the front. 'Biology'-- 'bios' is the central concept, hence the root, while 'logy' is a suffix meaning 'study, knowlege of'. 'Biorhythm'-- here the rhythm is the central concept (root) and the 'bio' tacks on the idea of life as a prefix. Suffixes are mostly parts-of-speech makers, turning verbs into nouns into adjectives.

Re: Licious

evan kirshenbaum — Thu, 03 Jun 2004 00:09:17 GMT

I doubt it. What you've got here is a reanalysis ... suffix. This is the same process that produced "-burger", "-dog", I consider those two different because those are food items. "Burger" and "dog" can be used on their own. The process is the same, though. It's just that a new affix rather than a new root is created. "Hamburger" came from "Hamburg". "Hamburg-er" was reanalyzed as "Ham-burger", and other things came to be substituted for the "ham". If a burger is made out of chicken, it's a chicken burger. If a dog is made out of corn, it's a corn dog, etc. Remind me never to ask you for a corn dog. Simply an adjective to describe...

Re: A name to my pain

evan kirshenbaum — Tue, 01 Jun 2004 01:20:40 GMT

I don't follow. Are you implying that "of England" is ... a prepositional phrase rather than a form of a noun. Kirsh, isn't, at some point, the distinction between the two an arbitrary one? Why not consider "of England", the spoken phrase (let's ignore the written language), a single word, /@ 'vIN gl@nd/ or whatever, the possessive form of the word /IN gl@nd/? The problem is that you then have to decide what to make of "of Merry Old England". If you can stick arbitrary words in between the parts, what's going on looks like syntax, not morphology. The alternative would seem to be to say that it's an affix if it happens to come immediately before the word it governs and it's a...

Re: A name to my pain

mike lyle — Sat, 29 May 2004 20:50:04 GMT

I'm sure it's Official, since you use it, but 'clitic' ... I can't check. Am I being too old-world about this? Probably. "Clitic" is apparently a latecomer, being attested by MWCD11 no earlier than 1946, presumably by linguists who felt that ... (1864). 1946 is sufficiently before my time, however, that it was just the standard term when I was taking classes. OK: as so often, it's more a style thing. I'm not making an issue, merely musing. Just we have 'affix' to embrace both 'prefix' and 'suffix', I think I might have formed 'acclitic' if I'd been asked (though since I was three at the time, perhaps I wouldn't have). Latin does have 'acclino' in...

Re: typographical syllabification

raymond — Mon, 10 May 2004 03:24:17 GMT

When a dictionary shows hyphenation in the headword, it is using typographical conventions about how such a word might be ... match the phonetic division. In the case of "hyphenation," you are probably wrong. The pronunciation is /,haI fn- 'eI Sn-/. I did not say the pronunciation is that way. I just said it is the way how the word is divided in most dictionaries. ... The second syllable is closed, and your claim that the "actual syllabic division would be hy.phe.na.tion" is true only for those who separate the from the root 'hyphen' and transfer it to the affix '-ation', saying /,haI f@ 'neI Sn-/. I think most, if not all, native speakers pronounce /neI/ as a syllable separate from /f@/. In...

Re: typographical syllabification

martin ambuhl — Sun, 09 May 2004 18:09:57 GMT

Dear all, I have some questions about how words are divided in dictionary entries. It seems to be an arbitrary ... divide words in writing, and if the divisions in the dictionaries are inflexible, i.e. invariable. I would appreciate your replies. When a dictionary shows hyphenation in the headword, it is using typographical conventions about how such a word might be divided in print. That is the reason that many dictionaries avoid separating very small syllables at the beginning or end of a word. The typographical conventions often do not match the phonetic division. In the case of "hyphenation," you are probably wrong. The pronunciation is /,haI fn- 'eI Sn-/. The second syllable is closed, and your claim that the...

Re: Patho-logy

arcadian rises — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 16:15:45 GMT

What is there to reconcile? You know what a "back-formation" means, right? First there was a noun "homeopathy," and then ... "homeopath." It just comes from shortening the form of the word, it no longer relates to the original root histories. You're absolutely right, there is not need of reconciliation, or even slightest agreement with etymology in cases of back formation. back-formation n : a word invented (usually unwittingly by subtracting an affix) on the assumption that a familiar word derives from it. There are lots of back formations but naturally all examples escape me. The typical example is "Utopia" (Gr for nowhere land). But one of the most illistrative examples is...

Re: Hortense

maria conlon — Thu, 22 Jan 2004 19:14:56 GMT

About the subject line: I greatly dislike it when I write a meaningful subject line and then see it used ... subject line "Hortense", chatting about everything from baked apples to the weather in North Dakota, I could not care less. I rather like the "Hortense" subject line. It reminds me of an old Archie comic book, wherein a girl named Hortense a shy, unattractive young lady was asked for a date to a dance by none other than Jughead an unattractive guy who was ahead of his time, being already dumbed down. As a name, "Hortense" is dreadful, of course. A "Hortense" cannot escape being called "***" and is, whorish or not, often considered "horse-like." I think...

Re: Pull the other one

tony cooper — Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:33:56 GMT

"Pull the other one" means that I'm saying that you ... "it's got bells on it" was a Morris Dancer reference. I guess I'm going to flaunt my ignorence now, but who or what is a Morris Dancer? Some people might consider that a straight line. Basically, it's folk dancing. From one description: " When speaking of Morris dancing, the first thing that comes to mind is Cotswold Morris, which may be thought of as the regular kind. This is generally danced in groups (or sets) of six dancers, arranged in two rows of three. The dancers hold hankies in their hands, or perhaps sticks, either two short or one long one, and have bell-pads tied at their knees which make a loud and cheerful rhythm as they dance....

Re: Noun on first syllable; verb on second

cybercypher — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 02:43:41 GMT

(Email Removed) (Michael J Hardy) wrote on 10 Jan 2004: absent abstract accent addict address admit advert affect affix ally annex array (In some dialects, this word belongs in this ... regress reject relapse remake research retake retard retract subject survey suspect transform transplant transpose transport undercount unit/unite update uplift upset Thank you, Michael. Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor.

Re: Noun on first syllable; verb on second

michael j hardy — Sat, 10 Jan 2004 00:52:47 GMT

Is there any concise name for words that are nouns ... not always? There are about 100 such words in English. You don't happen to have a nice neat list of them, do you? Franke: EFL teacher & medical editor. absent abstract accent addict address admit advert affect affix ally annex array (In some dialects, this word belongs in this list.) attribute combat combine compact compost compound compress commune concert conduct confines conflict conscript console consort construct consult content contest contract contrast converse convert convict "crack down" decrease default defect detail desert digest discard discharge discount dismount "drop out" entrance envelope/envelop escort essay excerpt exempt exploit export...