Re: USAGE: -ic(al) Re: [CONLANG] Most developed conlang

Quoting MorphemeAddict@WMCONNECT.COM:

> In a message dated 4/29/2007 11:58:54 AM Central Daylight Time,
> taliesin-conlang@NVG.ORG writes:
>
>
> > Dictionaries of English can't be wrong, as it is only the
> > dictionaries themselves that define how English is spelled.
> >
>
> If all the major English dictionaries spell a word one way, and a less
> significant dictionary spells it another way, that other way will be wrong.
> There is a consensus approach here.
I'da thunk the American Heritage Dictionary was a major English dictionary. In
any case, it does give _politicly_ as the adverb to _politic_.

However, _politicly_ gives only some 31khits on Google, so it isn't a common
form.

                                             Andreas

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