When you add a suffix to a word ending in 'fer' you sometimes need to double the 'r', but how do you know when? When you add a suffixes and the second syllable of the new word is stressed, then you ...

People love coining new words. And they love making good use of them—for a while anyway. Adultescence and Frankenstorm are just a couple of the creative blends that have once made it big but didn’t ...

The canonical use of -ish is as a suffix meaning “approximately,” as in bluish, tallish, sixish, or even hungry-ish. This is the definition—the only definition—that you’ll find in Merriam-Webster, ...