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Quotes About Suffix

And every word has at most one inflectional suffix. We never get opensed or opensing, nor do the plural -s and possessive s stack up when several owners own something: the dogs' blanket, not the dogs's (dogzez) blanket. Finally
~ Steven Pinker
So this file contained two of three names—-ovna was the suffix for a daughter. Vera Petrovna meant Vera, Petyr's daughter.
~ Kristin Hannah
All our current media concerns have in French the suffix '-aire': identitaire (issues of identity), sanitaire (health concerns), securitaire ('law and order'), humanitaire (humanitarianism). The whole lot being publicitaire (promotional). There is in this suffix something which quite aptly characterizes our culture as funerarium of received ideas and single-track thinking.
~ Jean Baudrillard