Ex never came back. It looks as if he is a bus driver for ex-schools. Conversationally, I agree that ex-wife seems much more common that former wife. Wiktionary has this definition: former, but still living (almost always used with a hyphen) ex-husband, ex-president, ex-wife So an ex-government official is someone who was previously a government official. com Sep 11, 2019 · In this context, the prefix ex- means former. Mar 13, 2011 · E. g. Jan 12, 2012 · I was thinking that this sort of anticipatory assimilation in which the voicing from the vowel following the ks makes the gz, also applies when the following sound is a voiced consonant, but it turns out there are too few examples of those to get a good feel for it: ex-directory, exgenerated, exgurgitation, ex-meridian, ex-vaccine, ex-votive Oct 3, 2016 · An example of ex in a phrase that will have a positive connotation for some people, a negative connotation for other people and neither a positive nor a negative connotation for still others is: ex cathedra, definition from Dictionary. Is it? "ex-Fish" just sounds ridiculous. In plural, The ex-policemen were on a strike demanding justice. Is this correct usage? Can each part be hyphenated, or the hyphen dropped altogether? Is there another way to make this more clear while still keeping the "ex" prefix? Jan 24, 2024 · Old English versions have the same. plxxv rfmox tsoiu nunlgo idui oivz zguss ivoex iovlp fyjyspt