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Subject: Re: "forgetable"
Hi all as your resident six year old playground mentality specialist have
googled forgetttable yes with three tees and got 651 hits
P with love
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The three-tees-in-forgetit were probably perpetrated by the young Glaswegian
who, when asked by his teacher how his name was spelt, replied:
"Pa??rson, sir, with two tees."
Is "forgetttable" an instance of graphemic hypercorrection?
Deeply forge?ible that, but.
{For <?>, read a repeated glottal stop.}
The Wee M'Greegor
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Subject: "forgetable"
Fred,
I just did a quick-and-dirty check on the "forgettable"/"forgetable" issue.
Google books gives approximately 80,000 hits for "forgettable" vs. 2,400 for
"forgetable".
In my book, that makes "forgettable" clearly the preferred spelling, but
with enough examples of "forgetable" to make it a legitimate variant
spelling.
Etymology => orthography (FORGET + ABLE) would seem to favour "forgetable",
however.
Jury still out on this?
Robin
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