It was a pretty long day, but a really fun day at the same time. I left the house early so I could make a stop in the office, and then it was off to the airport that ended in Harlingen. Then off to South Padre Island, another part of Texas that I have never visited. I have only lived in Texas for 34 years, so there is still a lot of Texas that I have not yet visited, but I expect there is still time. Interesting dinner meeting with our Region 11 colleagues, then we were invited to the home of one of our colleagues, then back to the hotel where I ran in to Candy, Mike, John, Adrian, Shari and several others.8:30 in the morning will be here before we know it, and back to Austin late tomorrow afternoon.
Infix -- Noun. a derivational or inflectional affix appearing in the body of a word. Jerome had a habit of using "ma" as an infix, as in sophistimacated."
Did You Know? Like phrases and suffixes, infixes are part of the general class of affixes ("sounds or letters attached to or inserted within a word to produce a derivative word or an inflectional form"). Infixes are relatively rare in English but you can find them in the plural forms of some words. For example, cupful, spoonful, and passerby can be pluralized as cupsful, spoonsful, and passersby, using s as an infix. Another example is the insertion of an (often offensive) intensifier into a word, as in "fan-freakin'-tastic." Such whole-word insertions are sometimes called infixes, though this phenomenon is more traditionally know as tmesis.
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