Editing -logy (section)

==-logy versus -ology==
In English names for fields of study, the suffix ''-logy'' is most frequently found preceded by the euphonic connective vowel ''o'' so that the word ends in ''-ology''.<ref>Eric Partridge, ''Origins'', 2nd edition, New York, Macmillan, 1959</ref> In these Greek words, the [[root (linguistics)|root]] is always a noun and ''-o-'' is the [[thematic vowel|combining vowel]] for all declensions of Greek nouns. However, when new names for fields of study are coined in modern English, the formations ending in ''-logy'' almost always add an ''-o-'', except when the root word ends in an "l" or a vowel, as in these exceptions:<ref>[http://words-ending-in-ogy.wordover.com/e/ Words Ending In ogy : Words Ending With ogy<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> ''[[analogy]]'', ''dekalogy'', ''disanalogy'', ''[[genealogy]]'', ''[[genethlialogy]]'', ''[[hexalogy]]''; ''herbalogy'' (a variant of ''[[herbology]]''), ''[[mammalogy]]'', ''[[mineralogy]]'', ''[[paralogy]]'', ''petralogy'' (a variant of ''[[petrology]]''); ''[[wikt:elogy|elogy]]''; [[wikt:heptalogy|heptalogy]]; ''[[antilogy]]'', ''[[wikt:festilogy|festilogy]]''; ''[[trilogy]]'', ''[[tetralogy]]'', ''[[wikt:pentalogy|pentalogy]]''; ''[[wikt:palillogy|palillogy]]'', ''[[wikt:pyroballogy|pyroballogy]]''; ''[[wikt:dyslogy|dyslogy]]''; ''[[eulogy]]''; and ''[[brachylogy]]''.<ref name="The Oxford English Dictionary 1989"/> Linguists sometimes jokingly refer to [[haplology]] as ''haplogy'' (subjecting the word ''haplology'' to the process of haplology itself).