The Cleverly Devised Poetical Dictionary of Prefixes and Suffixes
In my continuing efforts to expand my “vocabuverse” below is my recent attempt to poeticize the meanings of various prefixes and eventually suffixes. You know, the little words that make bigger words mean something more than what they originally did? I guess you could call this my own special form of “paratuition” or “dyseducation”. This is a work in progress (in the same way that my Cleverly Devised Poetical Dictionary of Difficult Words is a “work in progress”) so you’ll have to come back in a few months to see if I’ve “progressed” any further! Here goes… PREFIXES & SUFFIXES A PREFIX is a little word or “AFFIX” it is said added to a bigger word to make another word instead But if you like you can AFFIX a small word at the end this is called a SUFFIX which can change the meaning once again… ABNORMAL If you want a clever way to say something’s abnormal then insert PARA- at the start as in paranormal Otherwise you could indeed put DYS- in PARA’S pl...