Hi, On Fri, 28 Aug 2009, Avery Pennarun wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hmph, I don't know. Googling "overrideable" suggests "Did you mean > > overridable?" which is enough clue for me. > > Using a similar system, the Google hit count: > > overrideable: 26,900 > overridable: 339,000 > overridden: 2,280,000 But of course, "overidable" means "able to be overridden", not "overridden". > Which agrees with my intuition that you can get away with overridable, > but it's much more common to just use overridden. > > "override" of course comes from "ride" (181,000,000). A horse can be > ridden (10,500,000) if it's ridable (82,500). > > The bad news: rideable (201,000). > > http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ridable shows rideable as > the preferred spelling, but accepts both. Actually, I do not trust the bda speling of the many internet content providers as much as Merriam Webster, so of all your analysis, I find this the most important finding. Ciao, Dscho