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Endings in -ible
ENDINGS IN -IBLE AND -ABLE
The correct spelling of words that end in -ible or -able is often a puzzle to a compositor when they have been obscurely written. For his guidance the following list of the -ible words is presented. It may be inferred that doubtful words not appearing in this list end in -able.[1]
- accessible
- admissible
- appetible
- apprehensible
- audible
- cessible
- coercible
- compatible
- competible
- comprehensible
- compressible
- conceptible
- contemptible
- contractible
- controvertible
- convertible
- convincible
- corrigible
- corrosible
- corruptible
- credible
- decoctible
- deducible
- defeasible
- defensible
- descendible
- destructible
- digestible
- discernible
- distensible
- divisible
- docible
- edible
- effectible
- eligible
- eludible
- enforcible
- evincible
- expansible
- expressible
- extendible
- extensible
- fallible
- feasible
- fencible
- flexible
- forcible
- frangible
- fusible
- gullible
- horrible
- illegible
- immiscible
- impassible (see 17)
- intelligible
- irascible
- legible
- ↑ On the use of this suffix, Dr. in Fitzedward Hall's authoritative treatise, On English Adjectives in-able, etc. (London, Trübner & Co., 1877), may be consulted with advantage.
