Defining Prefixes And Suffixes

Words can have prefixes and suffixes. An example of words that might have a prefix are country names. REL CNTRY1 is an example of the word CNTRY1 that requires the prefix REL. REL CNTRY1/CNTRY2 is an example of two words (CNTRY1 and CNTRY2), both of which require the same prefix. An example of words that might have a suffix are project names, whose suffix might be the word LIMDIS to indicate that distribution of the information is limited to people working on the project. Thus PROJECT X LIMDIS is an example of the word PROJECT X that requires the suffix LIMDIS, and PROJECT X/PROJECT Y LIMDIS is an example of two words that require the same suffix LIMDIS.

It is also possible for a word to require both a prefix and a suffix. However, in such a case, the prefix and suffix must always be used together. In other words, if word W requires prefix P and suffix S, word X cannot require prefix P without also requiring suffix S.

It should be noted that words themselves can contain blanks (such as PROJECT X above), so simply having a blank in a word is no reason to define it as a word with a prefix. Rather, prefixes and suffixes should be used only when there are multiple words that require the same prefix or suffix.