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Endings in -ible
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  • miscible
  • negligible
  • partible
  • passible (see below}
  • perceptible
  • permissible
  • persuasible
  • pervertible
  • plausible
  • possible
  • producible
  • reducible
  • reflexible
  • refrangible
  • remissible
  • reprehensible
  • resistible
  • responsible
  • reversible
  • revertible
  • risible
  • seducible
  • sensible
  • tangible
  • terrible
  • transmissible
  • visible

Impassible (incapable of suffering or emotion) should be distinguished from impassable (not passable). This remark applies also to the words passible and passable.

CLASSICAL NAMES WITH K

To lead to a uniform pronunciation of words containing the Greek χ, heretofore rendered as c before some vowels and as s before other vowels, some writers in England and many on the Continent write k in classical names and their compounds : Thukydides for Thucydides, Kikero for Cicero, Kimmerian for Cimmerian, Mykenae for Mycenae. These new spellings are chosen almost exclusively by teachers of the classics. When the compositor finds either form in the manuscript of an educated writer he should repeat it faithfully without question or remark. The determination of the proper form is outside the province of the compositor or proof-reader.