| We usually have in mind a system where a stem is combined with various affixes, which might be prefixes, suffixes, or infixes. |
| Word stress is used primarily for emphasis and suffixes are stressed, as in readiness. |
| The main drawback of the Linnean system is that groups must be named with suffixes that denote their rank in this hierarchy. |
| Scandinavian languages like Danish and Swedish are almost as poor in conjugational suffixes as English, and yet in some dialects the verb moves. |
| Words combine with words, or prefixes and suffixes combine with roots, in ways that over time drift away from perfect sense. |
| It has seven vowels, it has no perfect tenses, it is chock-a-block with suffixes and its syntax is baroque. |
