Monday, January 11, 2010

Term 3 Spelling/Vocabulary/ Prefixes and Suffixes

See all of the prefixes/suffixes for Term 3 at this wiki page
See the dates for your tests on the calendar to the right. 


Non-examples  for our suffix post- which means after:

The word “poster” is called that because it was hung on a post.  It doesn’t have anything to do with “after.”

The postal service is called that because it contains the word part “post” which here means “mail.”

"Post" for "mail" comes from the Old French for a relay station for horses.

Extra credit: When we take the test, you may receive extra credit if you write on the back that the word part "post" as we use it for "mail" came from the Old French for a relay station for horses.  When they sent their mail, it would have been by horse.