postposing

[pohst-pohz]

post·pose

[pohst-pohz]
verb (used with object), post·posed, post·pos·ing. Grammar.
to place (a grammatical form) after a related grammatical form: The adverb “out” in “put out the light” is postposed in “put the light out.”

Origin:
1925–30; post- + (pre)pose
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Postposing is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
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