Entertainment / Literature / Infixation: Also called epenthesis, infixation is placing an infix (a new syllable, a word, or similar phonetic addition) in the middle of a larger word. Some languages regularly use infixation as a part of their standard grammar. In English, infixation is often used in colloquialisms or for poetic effect. Shakespeare might write, 'A visitating spirit came last night' to highlight the unnatural status of the visit. More prosaically, Ned Flanders from The Simpsons might say, 'Gosh-diddly-darn-it, Homer.' Catherine Faber responded to an ambiguous question with an ambiguous answer by crying out, 'Abso-kind-of-lutely.' The resulting word is often a neologism.
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Entertainment / Literature / Infix: While a prefix is a meaningful syllable or collection of syllables inserted before a main word, and a suffix is a meaningful syllable or collection of syllables added to the end of a main word, an inf MORE