massage sabotage

action: massage
male practioner: masseur
female practioner: masseuse

action: sabotage
male practioner: saboteur
female practioner: why not "saboteuse"??

Adjectively: adjectives that end with Ly

Some adjectives that end with Ly are also adverbs, but not all.

• heavenly
• miserly
• beastly
• costly
• cowardly
• deadly
• friendly
• likely
• brotherly
• kingly
• leisurely
• lovely
• lively
• womanly
• princely
• scholarly
• silly
• ugly
• unlikely
• bodily
• burly
• chilly
• comely
• courtly
• dastardly
• measly
• jolly
• oily
• otherworldly
• shapely
• sly
• unlikely
• wily
• wooly
• wordly

see http://srufaculty.sru.edu/david.dailey/words/lys.html

Words that are both adjectives and adverbs

(a.k.a. adjerbs)

Ending with Ly

• early
• slovenly
• gingerly
• hourly
• daily
• weekly
• monthly
• yearly
• quarterly
• timely

Not Ending with Ly

• pretty
• fast
• slow
• half
• straight
• late
• low
• hard
• bright
• safe
• better, best
• first, second ...

see http://www.englishpractice.com/improve/words-adjectives-adverbs/

The situation is irreparable and irrevocable

irreparable and irrevocable are strange words.

Their root words are "repair" and "revoke", respectively.  Somehow, adding a prefix and suffix to both words causes an unexpected mutation in spelling.

mismisnomers

If nomer is not a word, then the opposite of misnomer should be
mismisnomer.


Likewise,
the opposite of dishevelled is disdishevelled
the opposite of disparage is disdisparage
the opposite of insipid is ininsipid
the opposite of inept is ininept
the opposite of nonchalant is nonnonchalant
the opposite of incognito is inincognito

Non-negative prefixes

The prefix "in", "im", "dis", and "de" usually negate a word, but not necessarily

synonyms:
flammable & inflammable
heritable & inheritable
habitable & inhabitable
passive & impassive

bar & debar
sever & dissever

Dissimilarity

dissimilar = not similar
dispirited = not spirited

How come there are two 's' in dissimilar and only one in dispirited?

other dis-s words
dissatisfied = not satisfied
disservice = not service