Shared Prefixes Quiz #2

Deband not a word (although debanding is)

Maybe you are joking, but the "zoo" in zooplankton does not directly have anything to do with a zoo (as in the one there are zookeepers) zoo as in the park is actual short for zoological park/garden, a place where animals could be studied. Zoo comes from greek meaning animal (and -logy is the study of). So to be clear, zooplankton is not plankton specifically to be found in zoos

On a sidenote, for me it feels slightly weird to see it without extra indication of pronunciation. We write it as zoölogy so it is clear it is not zool-ogy but zoo-o-logy.

This could actually apply to alot of these words. It comes from Greek ἀμφί ‎(amphí) + βίος ‎(bíos, “life”). Today, however, these would be considered as either cranberry morphs, meaning when a morpheme appears to exist but doesn't (for example -mit in remit, transmit, commit, submit etc., or -bious in amphibious), or unpaired words, where the existence of a particular affix (for example non-) makes it seem as though an antonym should be formed upon its removal, but isn't (for example nonplussed and *plussed or nonchalant and *chalant). I suppose you can hence say that 'amphi-' is a prefix just as much as, say, 'bi-' or 'mal-' (you're not using 'ped' or 'feasance' anymore either), in that they were once formed from productive means whereas now they are just fossilised but the affixational morphology is still clear.

Yeah, this could count. They are both real words.

Tried this too

I tried this one too :)

I've never heard of a triped. Tripod, sure, but not triped.

I've never heard of nondairy or nonfactor. Regional terms perhaps.

I'm not sure if living in a pornocracy would be a good or bad thing.

Is paper punch even a thing?