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- Is useable preferred in certain regions, or just an alternate . . .
Which is why "useable" is considered at best an alternate spelling for "usable"; namely, there is no confusion either in the meaning or the pronunciation of "usable"
- etymology - What is the origin of the phrase useful idiot in a . . .
The collocation seems to have its origins as a 19th century synonym for the now-deprecated idiot savant, a person who is "neurodivergent" I doubt that is true -- a useful idiot and an idiot savant are entirely different animals
- unparseable vs. unparsable [closed] - English Language Usage . . .
What is the correct spelling of this word? See the discussion at (Codespell) false positive: unparseable
- Updatable vs. Updateable: which is correct?
Updatable vs updateable: Both of them are correct and acceptable Google Ngram shows that updatable is more prevalent than updateable However, the plausible answer would be: if the removal of final e from the base word changes the pronunciation of the preceding consonant, it's often incorrect and unacceptable but if its removal does not changes the pronunciation of the preceding consonant, it
- Which is the preferred spelling, byproduct, by-product, or by . . .
The OED lists two categories of words which begin "by" or bi; -see below By-product belongs to the second category and is spelled with a hyphen To the first category belong such words as because (originally bycause) But the second category contains, among other things, those words already formed in Old English with by, or later words where " by " 'already has an attributive sense' - by-road
- Which is correct, cill or sill? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
When I was at technical college in England in the 1970s, the ex-tradesmen lecturers used the spelling cill which seems to tie in with the references here (window cill, cill of lock gate) to the use of cill as a technical term among professionals like builders, architects or engineers and the sill form among the general population This also explains the wide difference in frequency; there are
- Succinct Synonym for Multi-use or Reusable
I am trying to find a laconic and "ringy" synonym for the word "multi-use" or "reusable" The word needs to be an adjective To give you an idea of the context, think of a sheet of paper on which o
- orthography - When to drop the e when ending in -able? - English . . .
The only situation that comes to mind where an -e- is absolutely required before -able is when it modifies the pronunciation of a consonant, typically g or c: Manageable (g as in giant) versus **managable* (g as in gut) Traceable (c as in once) versus **tracable* (c as in cut) Of course, that problem would exist in reverse for -ible words, but in practice it doesn’t arise as these are less
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