Alasdair Gunn: It’s Fun To Play Scrabble With A Linguist
Heterodorx
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The Importance of Infixing in English
I was playing a scrabble game with Alistair and he played the word I believe the word was mid-fix is that correct mid-fix in fix okay thank you in fix which was not a word I was familiar with but apparently there is related to the word prefix and suffix tell me if I oh okay well tell I wanted. According to Alistair at the time there was only one phrase or a couple syllables in English that constituted an in-fix in English which was fuckingYeah mainly so we call it fucking in fixing now it depends on your dialect but I can't explain to the listeners how that works right so a prefix suffix like so a prefix goes at
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