Timeline for Spelling of "possibility"
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| Nov 28, 2019 at 3:25 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Feb 13, 2015 at 13:59 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @Kris No probs:) I think it is though - although I might be wrong. Why do you feel it's not? (I might be able to improve my answer ...) | |
| Feb 13, 2015 at 13:57 | comment | added | Kris | @Araucaria I enjoyed it, but had to down vote it. That's not the point of the question, or the answer to it really. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 21:19 | vote | accept | JMP | ||
| Feb 12, 2015 at 19:42 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackEnglish/status/565959223843250176 | ||
| Feb 12, 2015 at 18:21 | answer | added | rogermue | timeline score: 5 | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:19 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @KristinaLopez You're exactly right. Your comment spurred me on to write an answer ... You can find it below! :-) | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:18 | comment | added | Araucaria - Him | @LittleEva, Mari-Lou A, Kris, Dan Bron, I have given you guys an answer below. Feel free to enjoy! :-) | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:16 | answer | added | Araucaria - Him | timeline score: 8 | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 17:01 | comment | added | user98990 | Well, folks, I was just playing. I looked at Mr. Perry's bio and he mentions that he's a humorous guy and I thought he might be having fun. But if the question is sincere I think he, like everyone else, is deserving of a sincere and informed response, a response I'm not capable of providing. And @Kristina Lopez, I would guess that you are right and that most of the time there are valid reasons why we have the spelling as we have it, and often there's a record of development. Surely one or two of our scholars will know. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 15:25 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | possible---> possibility; responsible---> responsibility; desirable---> desiribility; gullible---> gullibility. the -ity is a common suffix. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 15:09 | comment | added | Kris | @LittleEva No, they got their tongues twisted way too much, rather. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 15:09 | history | edited | Kris | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 12, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | Kris | How is possibility an exception, or any different from several other such "anomalies"? Or, is the OP using the word as a class-example? | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 15:06 | comment | added | Kristina Lopez | Not that I have the answer, @DanBron, but I have a hard time accepting "because" as an answer, either. There is a reason or history for the peculiarity of how a word is spelled. OP's not asking "why", he's asking where it comes from. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 13:34 | comment | added | Dan Bron | Because. Really, that's the entire answer. There is no secret cabal of English Gods who are actively designing and dictating the language, no one is reviewing it to make sure it's self-consistent or logical ... in short, there is no governance. There is no "why"; language, like a tree, simply grows, and tiny accidents of history can result in long, twisty branches leading nowhere. It is spelled as it is spelled. Accept it and move on. | |
| Feb 12, 2015 at 13:28 | history | asked | JMP | CC BY-SA 3.0 |