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, ...

From game theory to incels, how everything got ‘-maxxed.' By Nitsuh Abebe Even if you’d never encountered it, the suffix “-maxxing” would probably be legible at first glance. “Should You Be ...

Sometimes the root form of a word isn’t enough. You need to add a group of letters to the end of a word to make a new word. For example, if the suffix ‘ing’ is added to the end of the word ‘look’, the ...

Robert Nelson receives funding from the OLT. Here’s the truth, and if you’re British or Australian, you may not like it: when it comes to the suffix ize, as opposed to ise, the American standard is ...