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, ...

A suffix is a letter or group of letters that goes on the end of a word and changes the word's meaning. Sometimes they also change the original word's spelling. When adding a suffix you might have to ...

Here’s a bit of free grammar advice I found online, offered up by a self-appointed expert who thought he could help all us poor, misguided grammar ignoramuses: “‘Firstly’ isn’t a word.” This bold ...

Words are made up of roots, bases, stems, derivational endings, inflectional endings, and occasionally clitics. Not everyone agrees on these forms or on the names of them. This includes Katamba. If we ...

Suffixes are a small number of letters added to the end of a word which change its meaning. Add a suffix to the end of a word to make something smaller or as a term of affection. There are suffixes ...