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Why can you say abso-frickin-lutely but not ab-frickin-solutely?

Andrew Chidden on Projects, Linguistics · 29 Jan 2019

The linguistic process of inserting one word into another is called infixation. Although it’s essential to some languages, infixation in English is largely limited to inserting expletives, which is called expletive infixation. xkcd #1290 Like many grammatical rules, infixation isn’t something that’s explicitly taught (similar to the…

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