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"Unlike -ible, -able is a living suffix in the sense of being fully productive: you can add it to virtually any verb to make an adjective, even if there currently isn’t one. The words ending in -ible, by contrast, make up a finite list: they are all in the dictionary, and new ones aren’t being created."
— Oct 13, 2023 10:43AM
"Unlike -ible, -able is a living suffix in the sense of being fully productive: you can add it to virtually any verb to make an adjective, even if there currently isn’t one. The words ending in -ible, by contrast, make up a finite list: they are all in the dictionary, and new ones aren’t being created."
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Kevin Maness
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Yup, I actually am reading it. But just a few entries at a time when I have a moment or feel like it. Garner is smart and very funny, so the book is both educational and entertaining—much more than could possibly be imagined of a brickish reference tome like this. I doubt that I’ll finish the book this year. Maybe not even next year. Maybe not at all.
— Oct 08, 2023 08:13PM
