Re: [math-fun] Turing -- world's fastest mathematician?

I'd say No -- it's kind of random. The same kind of randomness applies to -able and -ible suffixes. (As usual in English, spelling is crazy.) --Dan On 2013-12-26, at 11:03 AM, Joerg Arndt wrote:

OT: Is there a rule for words ending as *ance or *ence how to pick 'a' versus 'e'? (Without spell-checker I'd be doing it more often wrong than right by now; "Just do it the other way round" is not considered a valid answer).