The aim of this workshop is to increase your confidence in identifying words that are morphologically related.

We’ll start with some seemingly simple words and look at clues you can give your young or inexperienced word inquirers.

We’ll also examine some words that will have most of us wondering if they are related or not and talk about ways to determine the relationship with greater confidence.

How can you be sure which words are in the same family?

• • <fairly> <fairy> <unfair>?
  • <archery> <archway> and <monarchy>?
  • <dictionary> <predict> and <dictator>?