Re: Spelling
"Martin J. Evans" <[email protected]>
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H.Merijn Brand wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:48:59 -0400, John Scoles <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> H.Merijn Brand wrote: >>> Things I also noted: >>> >>> # 'DEFERABILITY' => (DEFER ABILITY DEFER-ABILITY DESIRABILITY DURABILITY DIVISIBILITY) >>> # 'deferrability' => (desirability durability divisibility) >>> # 'DEFERRABILITY' => (DESIRABILITY DURABILITY DIVISIBILITY) >> The correct spelling is >> >> DEFERRABILITY though strictly speaking it is not an English word that >> should be used in a sentence. It is one of those messy ones where you >> have taken a verb 'defer' added 'able' to it (doubled the 'r' to keep >> the 'e' short) to get deferrable and then added 'ity' to turn it into >> an adjective. > > But I'm not going to touch that, as it looks like coming from some sort > of base table from a standard. Martin? The first one comes from the ODBC specification and I checked and it should be DEFERRABILITY. However in SQL/CLI it is defined as DEFERABILITY so the bracketed one (second instance) is also correct :-( Martin -- Martin J. Evans Easysoft Limited http://www.easysoft.com