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infix - n., an inflectional or derivational appearing in the body of a word.
A suffix goes on the end, a prefix goes in front, an infix goes inside -- and they're all affixes. There are several languages where it's a common grammatical structure. It's most commonly found in English as a form of emphasis, usually with profanity, along the lines of abso-bloomin'-lutely or in-effing-credible. It's also used in the naming of chemical compounds. For more info, Wikipedia.
---L.
A suffix goes on the end, a prefix goes in front, an infix goes inside -- and they're all affixes. There are several languages where it's a common grammatical structure. It's most commonly found in English as a form of emphasis, usually with profanity, along the lines of abso-bloomin'-lutely or in-effing-credible. It's also used in the naming of chemical compounds. For more info, Wikipedia.
---L.
