'-able' and cousin '-ible'
Barry Wood's always-good column on words and language in the Rockford Register Star helps sort out this week the morass that is spelling with the suffixes -able or -ible.
There will be a test!
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Barry Wood's always-good column on words and language in the Rockford Register Star helps sort out this week the morass that is spelling with the suffixes -able or -ible.
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