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Subject:Re: Electric vs. electrical From:Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com> To:Dave C <davec2468 -at- yahoo -dot- com> Date:Wed, 15 Jan 2014 10:01:56 -0800
Garner says the choice between the two appears to be governed
primarily by euphony and that "electrical" is standard in some set
phrases, among which I suppose is "electrical engineering."
Google finds 827,000 hits for the string "electrical repair" and
500,000 for "electric repair."
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Dave C <davec2468 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
> A friend and I are having a polite disagreement about these 2 terms.
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> The phrase I've written is "electric and electronic repair". He says that it should be "electrical and electronic repair".
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> I say that the "ic" ending of the terms makes them parallel whereas the "al" on one destroys this parallelism.
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> What do y'all say?
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> If there's a better forum in which to ask such questions just say so...
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> Thanks,
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