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I'd prefer to consider it a 'combining form' without attempting to further classify it. In discography , it seems more like a suffix to me, while in geography , it seems more like 'graph' as root + 'y' as a noun-making suffix. It has more to do with the relative weight of the remainder of the word, I think.
- I'd prefer to consider it a 'combining form' without attempting to further classify it.
- In discography , it seems more like a suffix to me, while in geography , it seems more like 'graph' as root + 'y' as a noun-making suffix.
- It has more to do with the relative weight of the remainder of the word, I think.
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I'd prefer to consider it a 'combining form' without attempting to further classify it. In discography, it seems more like a suffix to me, while in geography, it seems more like 'graph' as root + 'y' as a noun-making suffix. It has more to do with the relative weight of the remainder of the word, I think.
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