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Oisterboy

Why is it spelled "extension" and not "extention" like most other words in the English language?

Also, whats that called? The endings of words..."tion", "ing", etc. Not a prefix...a postfix?

Thanks. Sorry for the flood of threads but its slow around here anyway these days.

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shadowsworn

tension, pretension, suspension...

also

http://www.english-for-students.com/tion.html

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TheSkald

Suffix. .

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bonneau_14

This.

I never paid any attention to my English classes. I wish I could have had one English teacher in my highschool career who wasn't a moron.

A grade 12 English class, we spent the ENTIRE semester reading a 200 page book (orally for slow students), and reveiwing 6th grade grammar lessons.

I either didn't show up to that class, or came stoned. It was unreal, that fat broad would spend 20 minutes everyday talking about how fat/ugly/old she was, and then tell us everything about her kids.