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https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-age https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-age has some information on the subject. Seems the convention was created to turn nouns into
by castis 11y ago
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-age https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-age has some information on the subject. Seems the convention was created to turn nouns into verbs?
- phillc73 11y agoThanks. Of the six potential uses, I think this one is most relevant: "Forming nouns indicating a process, action or result. E.g. blockage, slippage, shrinkage" Yet in this case the extension to "wastage" still feels somehow redundant. For example, I wouldn't say "Household wastage in modern society".
- sp332 11y agoI would use "waste" to refer to the physical result, a bunch of trash or whatever. "Wastage" to me is the act, the production of waste.