Collected on ili-l in February 2014.

1. More straightforward
 Dentistry (dent* rather than dentist*)
 Glacier (glacie* rather than glaci*)
 Slavery (slave* rather than slav*)
 Manage* (management, etc.)
 Econom* (economics, economy, etc.)
 Program* (programmatic, programmable, etc.)
 Prison* (prison, prisoner)
 Teen* smok* for teen smoking
 Child* for children
Tricky
 Polic* for policy/policies (returns police, policing)
 Male* (male, maleness, malevolence)
 Migra* (migrant, migrate, migraine)
 Hog* (hogs, hogging, [William] Hogarth)
 Color* (coloring and Colorado but not colour)
 Indian* (Indian, Indiana, Indianapolis)
 Bull* for bully/bullies
 Comp* for computer
 Photo* (photography, photosynthesis)
 Rac* for race/racism (returns raccoon)
 Cat* (cats, categories, catacomb)
 Eco* for ecological (economics, etc.)
 Rom* for Rome/Roman (romantic, romp, Romeo)
 Cell* (cellular, cellophane, cellulite)
 Infan* (infancy, infantile, infanticide, infantry)  (infants OR infancy) or NOT
Wildcards
 Wom!n
 Dr!nk driv*
We’ve also thrown around the idea of likening truncation to a game of Words with Friends—offering a
root word and then a selection of letters and asking students to see how many different endings they
can come up with.