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-able vs -eable is not about GB or US spelling
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The grammar rule is that the final silent "e" of the root verb is
dropped, except for root verbs ending in "ce" and "ge". The rule is
the same in British and American English, and so is actual usage
according to the Google Ngram Viewer:
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=writable%2Cwriteable&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-GB-2019
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=writable%2Cwriteable&year_start=1900&year_end=2019&corpus=en-US-2019
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DimitriPapadopoulos committed Jun 4, 2024
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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt
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Expand Up @@ -60860,7 +60860,7 @@ wireframws->wireframes
wirh->with
wirhin->within
wirhout->without
wirtable->writable, writeable,
wirtable->writable
wirte->write
wirter->writer
wirters->writers
Expand All @@ -60881,7 +60881,7 @@ wissle->whistle
wissled->whistled
wissles->whistles
wissling->whistling
witable->writable, writeable,
witable->writable
witdh->width
witdhs->widths
witdth->width
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1 change: 0 additions & 1 deletion codespell_lib/data/dictionary_en-GB_to_en-US.txt
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Expand Up @@ -518,4 +518,3 @@ visualised->visualized
visualiser->visualizer
visualises->visualizes
visualising->visualizing
writeable->writable

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