... general properties that characterize the system of English affixation are introduced, and a survey of a wide range of suffixes, prefixes is presented. Finally, we investigate cases of infixation. ... specific point in time, and since the OED aims at complete coverage of the English word stock, the earliest known attestation of a word is always given. This is very important in our context, ... tells the program to look only for those <*ment> words that are first attested (‘fd’ stands for ‘first date of attestation’) between 1950 and 1985 (where the OED coverage ends). When we run...