I noted this in my comment, but there are no native cases of this. It’s one of the (many) ways in which English is an outlier from its IE relatives. There are, though, some postfix cases where we will use a preposition (as a separate word) after a verb to modify its meaning: e.g, give in, give up, give out, etc.
The Colorado School of Mines had a "host family" program for foreign students. My father was a geologist, and we lived about five miles from the School of Mines, so we/they acted as host family for students from Italy, Nigeria, China, and no doubt countries I've forgotten. This included invitations to holiday meals, drives into the mountains, etc.
I was a copy editor long ago, and pretty good at it. I have been slightly surprised to make the acquaintance of a couple of people who still do that. One said that the wages aren't great, which was my recollection. But I wouldn't mind working as an editor.
It's a very prevalent form of cynicism, which I find ironic because in high school every student learned to write persuasive essays, but "adults" like to tell each other not to change people's minds. It's a subtle meta-rhetorical move used to undermine rationalism and formal education.
Sigal published bits of reminiscence in (I think) The Atlantic about forty years ago. These did not include gossip about Lessing or Laing, rather were about making a living as a writer in the UK.
(Bob used to say that he was planning to get a PhD by the “green stamp method,” namely by saving envelopes addressed to him as “Dr. Floyd.” After collecting 500 such letters, he mused, a university somewhere in Arizona would probably grant him a degree.)
Within the last ten years I have worked with lawyers and legal secretaries who were still using WordPerfect. I have to say that I was surprised to learn this.
Well, English has inherited a lot of such families ultimately from Latin: admit, commit, remit, transmit.
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