Re: browseable vs browsable

[Geoff Lane <geoff -at- gjctech -dot- co -dot- uk>]

On Wednesday, August 23, 2006, Jessica Weissman wrote;

> Does anyone have a usage reference that supports either "browseable" or
> "browsable" to describe a set of choices?  

> I have an opinion, and doubtless others do too.  But I need a web or
> printed reference endorsing one or the other explicitly.   Web examples
> of one form or the other are not applicable.
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I'd have thought that neither was acceptable except as jargon. Indeed
this seems the case for right-pondians, such as myself, because the
OED lists neither.

However, "browsable" seems to have made it for left-pondians:

http://www.merriamwebster.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?va=browsable

HTH,

-- 
Geoff Lane
Cornwall, UK

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