Timeline for What's the word for the use of the wrong prefix or suffix?
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| Jul 5, 2016 at 23:13 | comment | added | Hot Licks | I resemble that remark! | |
| Jul 5, 2016 at 20:46 | answer | added | ruakh | timeline score: 2 | |
| Jul 4, 2016 at 4:53 | comment | added | Sven Yargs | How about "imcorrect affix"? | |
| Jun 24, 2016 at 15:29 | comment | added | CHEESE | I believe the word is "nongrammatical" | |
| Jun 21, 2016 at 22:50 | comment | added | John Lawler | Most of the various ways that people can misspeak have no special names. It's hard enough to remember all the words you do say, without having to remember the names for the words you don't say. | |
| Jun 14, 2016 at 15:30 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/742741096996954113 | ||
| Jun 10, 2016 at 12:31 | comment | added | Max Williams | Btw, this is relevant reading, while not the same question: english.stackexchange.com/questions/292531/… eg In general, words take un- when they are of English (Germanic) origin and in- if they come from Latin. (The forms im-, il-, and ir- are variations on in-.) ... the battle between in- and un- has been going on for centuries ... As an example, for several centuries English had both inability and unability, but the latter disappeared in the eighteenth century for no very obvious reason. | |
| Jun 10, 2016 at 12:30 | comment | added | Max Williams | Do you mean a type of word which looks like it should be correct, logically, according to rules used with other words? If so then you should explain that in your question. | |
| Jun 10, 2016 at 12:29 | comment | added | Max Williams | Me fail English? That's unpossible! (Ralph Wiggum) | |
| Jun 10, 2016 at 11:08 | comment | added | Colin Fine | I don't know a specific word for it. It's not a grammatical error, it's a lexical one: simply using a word that doesn't exist. | |
| Jun 10, 2016 at 8:51 | comment | added | vickyace | Pseudography comes close. | |
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| Jun 10, 2016 at 8:18 | history | asked | Lee | CC BY-SA 3.0 |