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- noun Plural form of
suffix .
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Examples
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Some words are simply scientific, coming from Greek and Latin suffixes, prefixes, and roots.
The Vatican’s Dictionary of Recent Latinity « The Half-Baked Maker 2010
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The first domain suffixes especially created for mobile devices became available on Monday, but some critics say a new domain naming plan is unnecessary.
Science, tech, laws 2006
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QWERTY keyboard layout to English-language morphology and its rules for generating suffixes is a non-relation, a sheer metonymy; yet here, by chance (or fate? or neither?) the exteriority of the typo has become teasingly indistinguishable from the interiority of the language.
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Both the animated series and the manga have had translations keeping the name suffixes in place.
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And, when another approach seemed called for, some of Jameses 'neighbors or overlords started sticking on the pejorative suffixes - azzo, - accio,
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Also you may want to squeeze in suffixes (even if you already taught it) to make sure they don’t get confused between suffixes and prefixes.
Lesson Plan For 3rd Graders? « Literacy Lesson Plans « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2009
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Also you may want to squeeze in suffixes (even if you already taught it) to make sure they don’t get confused between suffixes and prefixes.
Lesson plan for 3rd graders? « Literacy Lesson Plans « Literacy Help « Literacy News 2010
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Foolish or not, looking for consistency in such suffixes is bound to drive anyone to distraction, because it doesn’t exist.
Word Court 2007
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Foolish or not, looking for consistency in such suffixes is bound to drive anyone to distraction, because it doesn’t exist.
Word Court 2007
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I’d probably agree with you, but this mispelling and bracketing suffixes is just dumb and only serves to hurt the discussion.
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