Many people have likely had the experience of stopping in their tracks when they encounter 'suffer' meaning 'to endure' right after learning that the root 'fer' means 'to carry'.Transfer, offer, and ...

When you add a suffix to a word ending in 'fer' you sometimes need to double the 'r', but how do you know when? When you add a suffixes and the second syllable of the new word is stressed, then you ...