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urban / suburbs / suburbia / burbs — Wordorigins.org

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31 March 2025 The typical path of a term’s development is the appearance of the root, then the root is added to, through compounding, adding affixes (i.e., derivation), or some other means. Then it may be clipped to shorter form. But urban / suburban reverses this usual order. We see the clipped

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