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Creating words with “-able” suffix
What are general rules of thumb for creating adjectives with -able? I wanted to denote an object as having an ability to be tiled, but "tileable" and "tilable" both yielded as incorrect words by spell ...
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Adjective form of “collide”—“collideable” or “collidable”?
I need to name an interface in a program I'm writing as being able to collide, but I've seen use of both collideable and collidable in projects with a similar type. Both of them look right in some ...
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When to drop the 'e' when ending in -able?
I've seen a thread that generally asks about Creating words with “-able” suffix But I don't think it answers my point, though they are admittedly dangerously close topics.
When do you drop the 'e' ...
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“Archivable” or “archiveable”
I have an entity and I would like to describe it as being able to be archived.
Is it archivable, archiveable (which seem OK for me but no wiktionary.org results) or something else?
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Correct spelling: Updatable or Updateable?
Which is the correct spelling of the word?
For example, "The file is not updat(e)able.".
Btw, I did go to google and ref.dic.com for this first, and they both seem to indicate that they are both ...
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“Hirable” or “hireable”
What is the correct adjective form of the word hire? I have seen references to both hireable and hirable.
I checked using Google's Ngram viewer book search and it appears that both have been in use ...
