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What is the distinction between "among" and "amongst"?

differences prepositions synonyms suffixes

Origin of "-ing"

etymology suffixes gerunds present-participles word-formation

The "old switcheroo": Where did the "-eroo" suffix come from?

etymology american-english suffixes north-american-english

What is the difference between "electric" and "electrical" and their usage?

differences adjectives suffixes ic-ical

Retriable or retryable?

adjectives orthography suffixes variants

How did phobia ever come to mean hatred?

meaning etymology suffixes greek semantic-shift

Is there a difference between "anatomic" and "anatomical"?

word-choice adjectives suffixes collocation ic-ical

"Oriented" vs. "orientated"

etymology differences american-english british-english suffixes

"Extensible" vs. "extendible"

word-choice differences adjectives suffixes consonants

Words that are pluralized in the middle?

nouns grammatical-number suffixes compounds inflectional-morphology

Is it "falsy" or "falsey"?

terminology orthography suffixes computing silent-letters

"Updatable" vs. "Updateable": which is correct?

adjectives orthography suffixes silent-letters able-eable

Why is it "geometric" but "theoretical"?

meaning etymology suffixes morphology ic-ical

What’s the rule for adding “-er” vs. “-or” when forming an agent noun from a verb?

orthography suffixes morphology derivational-morphology agent-noun-suffix

Is there a suffix like "phile" or "phobe" for don't care?