I am now belyceled by this post. Thanks for being an English teacher and being hell of a lot better than my British lit teacher who gave me a referral and a detention for funny reasons
I've never heard of any of those :O The point of bewords is that they add 'be' before a non-adjective word to make it an adjective, eg. spectacle (noun) -> bespectacled (adjective). So those ones are kinda redundant, as respected/British etc are already adjectives :>
Idk, my mum was strict when I was younger, but I'm pretty much an adult now, so we just have normal person conversations and stuff. She doesn't need to restrict me from getting stuff because I'm not a kid anymore.
They're also typically put into past tense: belyced for example. But this prefix is called a 'derivational' prefix: the kind we add to make new words. This means the product of the word is unpredictable and may not always result in a real word. 'be' as a prefix is an archaic prefix: nowadays if we want to turn a noun into an adjective, we add 'y/ly' to the end mostly (eg. rat -> ratty).
Even with the modern prefix, it doesn't work with every word. Eg. we can say ratty, but we can't use doggy (we'd say doggedly instead). Sure, gradually making up new words is part of English, but if you go around doing it al the time you're gonna confuse a lot of people
Muffins are the best
Also I feel like sweet potatoes chips make more sense in a country that calls 'yams' sweet potatoes, haha. I never realised that America doesn't call them Yam fries or something.
At my local Costco they sell these massive chocolate, Popeye seeds, Blueberry, and Apple crumble muffins
Yea I find it weird too. If they're called sweet potato fries and they come from yams just name them yam fries. One of the many reasons I wish to move to Australia haha (or canada )
There's this grocery store near where I love and they sell all sorts of pasteries in this glass box for like $0.79. I go there often via my bike and get some donuts
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