Back to the 1940s. Ben Zimmer writes to report that going through back issues of American Speech, he came across a couple of articles discussing what we would now call “libfixes”; Harold Wentworth called them “neo-pseudo-suffixes”: Harold Wentworth, “The Neo-Pseudo-Suffix ‘-eroo’”, American Speech, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Feb., 1942), pp. 10-15 (link) Dwight L. Bolinger, “Among … Continue reading Briefly: early libfixology