drive-by grammar nazi!

[rone]

Take a verb that ends in -ce, such as "service" or "replace".  When you add the -able suffix to adjectivize that word, the result should keep the e.  Do not elide it, or the c will become hard.  "serviceable", "replaceable": good.  "servicable", "replacable": bad.

Comments

[doctroid.livejournal.com]

Do people actually do that?

What am I saying??

<Googles a bit>

Ye ghods. (http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,103986,00.html)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

"I cannot cancel my face," said IBM researcher Nalini Ratha.

I cannot cancel my face.
I CANNOT CANCEL MY FACE.

[littleamerica.livejournal.com]

Faces have to be revoked; you wouldn't believe the paperwork.

[waider.livejournal.com]

Ow, I hurt from laughing. I don't even want to read for context, it'd spoil the fun.