SUFFIXES 1

(A) -MENT

Normal halved and hooked M:

payment complement compliment basement oddment

treatment attachment detachment catchment employment

agreement assessment movement filament
 

environment involvement experiment fulfilment

wonderment ointment commandment testament*

*Omits the middle T

bereavement embarrassment development*

* Optional contraction

Where the -mnt stroke cannot join, use an unvocalised -nt instead
 

postponement consignment commencement refinement

resentment imprisonment enhancement

alignment (aligned) Compare: liniment

When using -nt for this suffix, a third place vowel immediately before that syllable remains with the preceding stroke, as there is an unwritten M sound before it:
 

accompaniment merriment monument tenement

Care must be taken when writing the -nt for the suffix, so that it does not look like an Ing stroke, which would have the same meaning when the verb with -ing is being used as a noun. For extra clarity, insert the vowel before the Ing stroke:
 

pavement paving, achievement achieving

confinement confining, announcement announcing

(B) -MENTAL -MENTALLY -MENTALITY

Disjoin the -mnt stroke for all three of the above suffixes, although for convenience only one longhand version is shown below:
 

experimental departmental detrimental temperamental

fundamental incremental environmental judgemental

sentimental instrumental monumental segmental governmental*

* Using the Contraction
 

Exceptions: mental mentally elemental Note: elementary

ornament ornamental Note: ornate

(C) -FULNESS -LESSNESS -LOUSNESS

Disjoined FS and LS
 

playfulness faithfulness mindfulness dreadfulness Note: fullness awfulness
 

selflessness mindlessness faithlessness

callousness carelessness hopelessness

(D) -SHIP

Joined or disjoined Ish, with no vowel sign.

Joined where possible:
 

friendship township partnership ownership relationship
 

horsemanship statesmanship sportsmanship workmanship

Disjoined if a clear angle cannot be obtained:
 

leadership scholarship apprenticeship membership
 

hardship stewardship courtship discipleship dictatorship

These are clearer in full:
 

fellowship worship apostleship airship/heirship starship

"ship" (=boat) used as a noun or verb is in full, as a normal outline:
 

steamship flagship warship unship reship

If it cannot be joined clearly, rather than disjoin the whole of "ship", it copies the suffix by using an disjoined Ish, with no vowel sign:
 

fire ship, spaceship battleship

(E) -ISM

The default way to write this is with Circle S + M:

tourism realism heroism egotism archaism

exorcism (exorcise and compare exercise) occultism

unionism cynicism atheism neologism

A few words in -cism use the Ses Circle, where this joins more easily:

criticism (criticise) fanaticism Catholicism agnosticism

stoicism (stoic) narcissism (narcissus) parasitism

After a final hook, Zee + M is used:

perfectionism positivism Americanism Darwinism

organism objectivism subjectivism*

* The Optional Contraction is preferable

(F) The outlines below are exceptional in that they cannot show all the vowels, the missing vowel is shown underlined. This is tolerated in order to avoid overlong outlines:

Protestant Protestantism despotism

patriotism favouritism pragmatism

(M) Contractions
 

advertise-d-ment govern-ed government governor*

*Optional Contraction
 

vegetarian* vegetarianism*

*Optional Contraction

Derivatives/related:
 

advertising advert advertiser governing

SUMMARY

• Use -nt, if -ment cannot join

• Disjoin for -mental/ly, -mentality

• Disjoined FS for -fulness

• Disjoined LS for -lessness -lousness

• Choices to write -ism -sism, depending on join

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