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Enjoy your stay at Wiktionary! Inner Focus (talk) 11:14, 20 August 2022 (UTC)

post-card
Uhhh although this is fun: you realise that pre- (before) and post- (after) are not the usual sense of postcard, a card sent in the post. Right? RIGHT? best wishes, Equinox ◑ 07:00, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * The prefix post- in the word "postcard" means "post", not "after". Also, I will find any quotation that says the word where its root word is an irregular plural, and its prefix changes the word type. Most of them can't be found, or some are not available in the English dictionary, and also see the pages Citations: artistics and Citations: glue cannon. 176.88.82.195 07:20, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * "post" in "postcard" is very, very, very definitely not a prefix. That word is a compound. Equinox ◑ 07:25, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * I'm not confusing the prefixes with compounds. An example is that a non-prefix is a compound that functions like a prefix but it's not a prefix. Non- means "no, not, or none", and "non" means "that which isn't something" or "anything that isn't something". 176.88.82.195 07:32, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * If you think "post" in "postcard" is a prefix then you need a real spanking. Trousers down. Equinox ◑ 07:34, 24 August 2022 (UTC)


 * And if you think I don't know what "non-" means being a 40-year-old Englishman with an English degree, then you are just rude. xox Equinox ◑ 07:35, 24 August 2022 (UTC)
 * I can't find any quotation with this meaning. So, it does not mean "being a 40-year-old Englishman with an English degree", and I'm not rude. 176.88.82.195 07:43, 24 August 2022 (UTC)

Blocked for adding huge numbers of bad etymologies
See your block log for examples. Equinox ◑ 14:32, 27 August 2022 (UTC)