Number 11 - Saxomophone, alcomahol and hey-diddly-ey via Tmesis!!

God bless our English language! Its so complex and inference can hang on the position of a simple comma. So, even as a fluent English speaker (will I ever be fluent??) I'm still learning brand new things about my mother tongue. I took French at A-Level and was shocked at how hard it was...you needed a degree in English first to understand the majority of it. If you a a tad shaky on what a past participle or what the third person present indicitive is or even what a conditional or imperitive verb is. So at last an easy thing to understand! The infix. The infix is a distant relative of the prefix and the suffix (even I know what they are!!) except the infix goes inside the word, not before or after it. The infix is rare in English and often get mixed up with the tmesis! Tmesis is the process of slipping a word into another. Your friend and mine Ned Flanders uses Tmesis all the time "Wel-diddly-elcome". Although this is groovy - I prefer expletive infixation "ABSO-BLOODY-Lutely" or "Fan-SMEGGING-tastic"! The expletive infixation is most useful when trying to make a word sound more HEAVY METAL simply take any word: "Primrose" for example. Split it at the syllable insert a naughty word (you know the one I mean, its got seven letters and starts with F and ends with "ing") and hey presto "Prim-f*****g-Rose" - How heavy metal is that!! Go on try it yourself - the expletive infixation and tmesis - make your English more interesting!