The canonical use of -ish is as a suffix meaning “approximately,” as in bluish, tallish, sixish, or even hungry-ish. This is the definition—the only definition—that you’ll find in Merriam-Webster, ...

Here’s a bit of free grammar advice I found online, offered up by a self-appointed expert who thought he could help all us poor, misguided grammar ignoramuses: “‘Firstly’ isn’t a word.” This bold ...

A suffix is a letter or group of letters that goes on the end of a word and changes the word's meaning. Sometimes they also change the original word's spelling. When adding a suffix you might have to ...

Prefixes and suffixes are additions to words that change them into different words. Prefixes are added to the beginning and suffixes are added to the end of the word. Examples of a prefix include ‘Pre ...