Talk:suffix
Latest comment: 6 years ago by Stephen G. Brown in topic evolution of suffixes
evolution of suffixes[edit]
-our to -or ➡ behavior/behaviour
mention that more analytically — This unsigned comment was added by 2a02:2149:844b:2000:7525:29c4:6630:8773 (talk).
- I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but the evolution of -our vs. -or began with -or. Most of the affected words came from Latin via early Old French. They were first adopted into English with the Latin -or spelling (sometimes -ur). After the Norman conquest, the English spelling was changed to -our to match the Norman French. Since most people did not know which words were recently borrowed from Norman French and which were older words where -or had long been standard, the conversion to -our was applied also to the older words. Even so, some words continued to be spelled with -or, and many people (such as Shakespeare) freely mixed the two spellings. Then the Americans (Noah Webster) reverted the -our spellings to the original English -or. —Stephen (Talk) 13:15, 17 January 2018 (UTC)
exclamatory suffixes[edit]
-a a a a a, -ah etc. (informal, semi-standardized) — This unsigned comment was added by 2a02:2149:844b:2000:7525:29c4:6630:8773 (talk).