Talk:Uninflected word

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I amd not sure what you mean by "word". Surely in plurals it takes the affix "s"? Did you mean "Word has it that ..."? --Dieter

Word is uninflected; words is inflected. -- Montréalais

Yes, I see that, but the original article was about "particles" which are never inflected unless they are changed to nouns or verbs, as in "ifs and buts" ("if" and "but" are sentence connectors here); or as in "humming and hawing" ("hum" is an interjection in this case). There is a separate item about grammatical particles. --Dieter Simon

Is this a good place to mention the declining use of inflection of words in English? --dgd

Is this the declining use of inflection over the last two centuries or a more recent phenomenon? --Dieter Simon