- Collectable vs collectible - WordReference Forums
In my early days of English grammar school, I was taught that a collectable was a debt that one could collect on and a collectible was an object worthy of including in a collection But while researching a translation, I came across this;collectible or collectable 1 able to be collected, as a
- Collectible collectable - WordReference Forums
The "FreeDictionary" calls collectable a variant of collectible and has them both as adj and noun, as do Random House and Collins The WRDictionary Concise OED on the other hand, puts collectable first and " (also collectible)" and accepts adj and noun For this one, I don't mind much either way, although I am more familiar with the i version
- singular plural - a jeans, a pants, a trousers? - WordReference Forums
Similar for underpants, Y-fronts, knickers, briefs, shorts, (swimming) trunks, tights These must all be in the plural Of course if you use 'a pair of', you need a verb in the singular My shorts are brown His pair of shorts looks worn out
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