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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

Words inserted in words

What do they call words like "un-bloody-likely", "in-bloody-credible"? I heard the name for these kinds of words a VERY long time ago. A newscaster, Edwin Neman?, was doing an opinion piece when he discussed the name.
  

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A name for the phenomenon is "tmesis". org/wiki/Tmesis#Tmesis_in_English

— Mr Wordy

  • A name for the phenomenon is "tmesis".
  • org/wiki/Tmesis#Tmesis_in_English
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Mr WordyA name for the phenomenon is "tmesis".
Thanks, Mr. Wordy!
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The process is 'tmesis', as Mr Wordy has already explained, and the inserted words are 'infixes'
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One that came up accidentally in our teachers lounge several years ago was my pronouncement, "absonotly." It stuck.
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