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A versatile suffix

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 October 2008

Raymond Chapman
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An account of the history and current uses of the suffix -ee

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Research Article
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English Today , Volume 7 , Issue 4 , October 1991 , pp. 39 - 42
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1991

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6Gowers, Ernest. The Complete Plain Words revised by Sidney Greenbaum and Janet Whitcut. London. HMSO. 1986, pp. 32f.Google Scholar
7 I am indebted to Foster, above (5) for this and some other references.Google Scholar
8Fowler, H.W.. Modern English Usage, p. 634.Google Scholar
9Dickens, Charles. Hard Times, 1854, I. 10: ‘the multitude of Coketown, generally called “the Hands” —a race who would have found more favour with some people, if Providence had seen fit to make them only hands’.Google Scholar