emphasiseemphasises

emphasiseemphasises is a nonstandard concatenation of two related English verb forms: emphasise, the British spelling of the verb meaning to give special importance to something, and emphasises, its third-person singular present tense. The string is not listed as a word in major dictionaries, but it can appear in discussions of orthography, morphology, or in text-processing contexts as an illustrative example of how base forms and inflected forms relate.

In British English, emphasise is the base form; in American English the base form is emphasize and the third-person singular is emphasizes. The concatenated form emphasiseemphasises would arise only through typographical omission or data handling rather than standard grammar, and it is typically treated as a single token for analysis rather than as two separate words in ordinary prose. Such a construction is more relevant as a curiosity in discussions of spelling and morphology than as a practically used term.

In computational linguistics and natural language processing, emphasiseemphasises can serve as a case study for tokenization, normalization, and lemmatization. It highlights challenges when a string may encode multiple related forms or when automated systems must decide whether to split a token or to preserve a combined form for analysis.

See also: emphasise, emphasises, emphasize, emphasizes.