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

The HAD is certainly major, although its reputation is not uncheckered
among serious students of English.

I think that it's really a simple situation: there are two adjectives,
"politic" (rare) and "political" (common), each with its own
associated adverb of corresponding frequency.

On 5/2/07, Andreas Johansson <andjo@...> wrote:
> 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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