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Type	Description	Contributor	Date
	Article revised and updated.	Brian Duignan	Feb 25, 2020
	Add new Web site: Literary Devices - Affix.	Gloria Lotha	May 11, 2017
	Article revised to mention circumfixes.	Brian Duignan	Jun 30, 2016
	Added example from Tagalog.	Brian Duignan	Feb 10, 2009
	Article added to new online database.	The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica	Jul 20, 1998