Your New Favorite Word

Tessa dabbles in the surprising world of English words with frequentative suffixes. Jamis discovers pleonasms, and shares them with you “free, gratis and for nothing.”

• 01:14 — Dwindle
• 02:01 — Frequentative suffixes in English
• 07:13 — Pleonasm
• 14:04 — Neoplasm

• Frequentative forms in multiple languages (Wikipedia)
• Fun list of some words in English with frequentative suffixes
• Pleonasm (Wikipedia)
• List of tautological place names (Wikipedia)