Phonology! My old friend!

I'd hypothesise that you can insert fucking either between the prefix and the root, or before a stressed vowel.

EDIT: Expletive infixation - Wikipedia https://share.google/broCNIxOgtnKUPvSv

Go Birds!

Pho-fuckin-nology

When I started listening to lots of audiobooks and podcasts in English, I discovered that many words have the stress further than I've thought from reading them.

We spent a solid week talking about fucking infixation in morphology class back in undergrad.

I can assure you that the rule on the slide is absofuckinglutly wrong. English speakers are remarkably consistent about how they do fucking infixation. Somehow, they all understand prosodic feet better than a room full of linguistics majors that just spent a week learning about it.

That immediately sounds like ‘green knife’ and ‘French knife’ are some special kinds of knives, not just what they look like and where they're from.

Unfuckingbelievable!

I don't like this new Fanta flavor

Nah, phono-fuckin-logy sounds more correct

There's actually a word for this!

Tmesis
Tmesis is a rhetorical device where a word is split into two parts with another word inserted between them, often for emphasis or comic effect.

The category order is generally more rigid toward the right half of the adjective list. So you could have an old thin bread knife or a thin old bread knife, but not an old bread thin knife.

Pronouns are the last bastion of inflection in English

Plurals and the few gendered nouns we have left (actor/actress), also count as declension

Well, the plurals are simple, just slap an apostrophe and ‘s’ in there.

I didnt believe in the rule until you showed me it was true.