Wednesday 4 November 2015

Lynation

Lynation: noun. The linguistic name for the process of taking an adjective and adding the suffix '-ly' to turn the verb into an adverb. Common examples of this include taking the word 'complete' and producing 'completely' or 'old' becoming 'oldly'. The term was first coined by Miriam Webster in the first edition of her eponymous dictionary.

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