Timeline for Is it "togglable" or "toggleable"?
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| Oct 25, 2019 at 18:09 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | @Ben As has been mentioned here before, productivity is gradeable in English. | |
| Oct 25, 2019 at 18:02 | history | protected | tchrist♦ | ||
| Oct 25, 2019 at 17:15 | comment | added | Ben | @Kevin: Any word + valid affix = word. It's called "productive morphology." | |
| Mar 26, 2018 at 13:59 | vote | accept | Panzercrisis | ||
| Aug 18, 2017 at 15:17 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackEnglish/status/898564580275769344 | ||
| Feb 21, 2017 at 19:57 | comment | added | Mari-Lou A | related: Are you googlable? | |
| Feb 21, 2017 at 19:01 | history | edited | herisson |
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| Jun 6, 2016 at 22:57 | comment | added | Adam Katz | Google web results (toggleable:284k, togglable:321k) reinforce @IanMacDonald's cited Google Books Ngrams tallies, though I get "Ngrams not found: toggleable, togglable" when I try. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 19:41 | comment | added | Hot Licks | The issue of whether to drop the "excess" vowel in a word like "toggleable" is a long-standing one. There are "rules", but they generally come with long lists of exceptions. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 15:54 | comment | added | choster | Related, possible duplicates: Rules for removing last vowel when adding “-able”?, When to drop the 'e' when ending in -able? | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 15:17 | answer | added | friff14 | timeline score: 31 | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 13:58 | comment | added | FumbleFingers | Syntactically and orthographically, to toggle is much the same as to handle, where Google NGram makes it pretty obvious most people still retain the 'e' in 'handleable'. Contrast with sizable/sizeable, where most people have discarded the 'e', and lovable/loveable, where practically everyone has discarded it. Me, I'm just hopelessly inconsistent. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 13:56 | comment | added | Kevin Workman | @Panzercrisis I'm not sure that's enough to consider something a word, but you might want to check out the answers (especially snailboat's answer) to this question: english.stackexchange.com/questions/132535/… | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 13:38 | comment | added | Panzercrisis | @KevinWorkman It seems to me like it makes too much sense for it to not be a word, even if it hasn't caught the attention of all the academic institutions yet. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 13:33 | comment | added | Kevin Workman | Why don't you believe it's not a word? Generally you would use "two-state widget" or "widget that can be toggled". | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 13:30 | comment | added | Ian MacDonald | Google's book search reveals 300 results for "toggleable" and 45 results for "togglable". Not a lot of traction on either word, but "toggleable" is more popular. | |
| Mar 10, 2015 at 13:25 | history | asked | Panzercrisis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |