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#30 Different Spellings of the Prefix "In"

Published: Aug. 30, 2011, 7 a.m.

Prefixes often undergo spelling changes depending upon the stem to which they are affixed. The prefix in, for example, can exist in the following forms: il, im, in, ir, and ig. Examples of words containing such forms include illegal, imbibe, innate, irregular, and ignoble.
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