Talk:suffix

evolution of suffixes
-our to -or ➡ behavior/behaviour

mention that more analytically


 * I'm not sure what point you're trying to make, but the evolution of -our vs. -or began with -or. Most of the affected words came from Latin via early Old French. They were first adopted into English with the Latin -or spelling (sometimes -ur). After the Norman conquest, the English spelling was changed to -our to match the Norman French. Since most people did not know which words were recently borrowed from Norman French and which were older words where -or had long been standard, the conversion to -our was applied also to the older words. Even so, some words continued to be spelled with -or, and many people (such as Shakespeare) freely mixed the two spellings. Then the Americans (Noah Webster) reverted the -our spellings to the original English -or. —Stephen (Talk) 13:15, 17 January 2018 (UTC)

exclamatory suffixes
-a a a a a, -ah etc. (informal, semi-standardized)