Timeline for When are liable and likely interchangeable?
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| May 10, 2019 at 0:27 | answer | added | Conrad Winkelman | timeline score: -1 | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 21:13 | answer | added | Tonepoet | timeline score: 0 | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 20:45 | vote | accept | most venerable sir | ||
| Sep 2, 2015 at 20:32 | history | edited | most venerable sir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 20:30 | answer | added | JEL | timeline score: 2 | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 20:16 | comment | added | JEL | I'll put it in answer form. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 20:05 | comment | added | most venerable sir | @JEL, if convenient, can you cite a site or book. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 20:00 | history | edited | most venerable sir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:59 | comment | added | JEL | 'Liable' means (in one sense), 'open to', with no necessary connotation of the likelihood or probability of the event. So, "Such a figure is open to being [= liable to be] attacked ....". 'Likely', on the other hand, so far as I can imagine right now, always suggests a connotation of probability (likelihood). So, "What he told me is probably [= likely to be] true." | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:40 | comment | added | most venerable sir | Yes. One definition for liable is likely and apt. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:39 | comment | added | WS2 | Have you looked up the two words in a dictionary? | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:36 | comment | added | most venerable sir | What difference? | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:36 | comment | added | Robusto | Your practice book is wrong. You can say that book is liable to become a best seller, but there is a subtle difference in meaning. | |
| Sep 2, 2015 at 19:22 | history | asked | most venerable sir | CC BY-SA 3.0 |