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The following is a list of common words sometimes ending with "-ise" (en-GB) especially in the UK popular press and "-ize" in American English (en-US) and Oxford spelling (en-GB-oxendict; formerly en-GB-oed) as used by the British Oxford English Dictionary, which uses the "-ize" ending for most of the same words as American English.
The ology ending is a combination of the letter o plus logy in which the letter o is used as an interconsonantal letter which, for phonological reasons, precedes the morpheme suffix logy. [1] Logy is a suffix in the English language, used with words originally adapted from Ancient Greek ending in -λογία (-logia). [2]
The Modern English-ing ending, which is used to form both gerunds and present participles of verbs (i.e. in noun and adjective uses), derives from two different historical suffixes. The gerund (noun) use comes from Middle English -ing , which is from Old English -ing , -ung (suffixes forming nouns from verbs).
However, some Latin nouns ending in -us are not second declension (cf. Latin grammar). For example, third declension neuter nouns such as opus and corpus have plurals opera and corpora, and fourth declension masculine and feminine nouns such as sinus and tribus have plurals sinūs and tribūs. Some English words derive from Latin idiosyncratically.
The suffixes -ify and -ise/-ize can be added to most nouns and adjectives to form new verbs. The pronunciation of c in newly coined words using these suffixes is not always clear. The digraph ck may be used to retain the hard c pronunciation in inflections and derivatives of a word such as trafficking from the verb traffic .
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Ify Nneji was born on 26 March 1983 into a religious family in Anambra State but grew up in Kaduna. [1] [2] Nneji holds a bachelor's degree in Public Administration, a master's degree in Human Resource Management and a Doctor of Public Administration from Enugu State University of Science and Technology.
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