Unlikely Glossary Project
Linguistic Particles
The monstrous (but nerdily amusing) byblow of some typographical errors and our tendency to conflate…
Examples:
- Ficiton
- Non-ficiton, or anti-ficiton
- Quesiton, Quesiton mark
- Exclamaiton, Exclamiton mark
- Ejaculaiton
- Inquisiton
- Partiton
- Exhausiton
- Preveniton
- Interveniton
- Conveniton
- Prepositon
- Propositon
- Impositon
- Expositon
- Introspeciton
- Prevariciton
Note: when the “-iton” suffix is applied to a vowel-final pseudostem, one has the option of either dropping the final vowel in the stem, or of combining it with the initial “i” in the suffix to produce some dipthong.
Recently observed on Wikipedia: “preson”