Aloha World Sevens Aloha World Sevens The annual Aloha World Sevens rugby tournament brings 24 junior (under 20 years old) teams from 24 nations to Hawaii to compete in a three-day event that includes cultural showcases from participating countries. The tournament is sanctioned by USA Rugby. Sevens, which is also referred to as seven-a-side rugby, rugby Sevens, rugby 7’s, and rugby VIIs, is rapidly gaining worldwide participation, making it one of the fastest growing sports in the world. From its beginnings at the Melrose Club in the Scottish Borders in 1883, Sevens has grown to where the International Rugby Board now has 117
Word family affix. Bauer and Nation proposed seven levels of affixes. Word family A word family is the base form of a word plus its inflected forms and derived forms made from affixes. In the English language, inflectional affixes include third person -"s", verbal "-ed" and "-ing", plural -"s", possessive -"s", comparative -"er" and superlative -"est". Derivational affixes include -"able, -er, -ish, -less, -ly, -ness, -th, -y, non-, un-, -al, -ation, -ess, -ful, -ism, -ist, -ity, -ize/-ise, -ment, in-". The idea is that a base word and its inflected forms support the same core meaning, and can be considered learned words if