Talk:Collectible

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Spelling Note. The OED indeed has collectable as the primary entry, allowing (also collectible). The OED does not conceed, as the spelling note implies, that because someone in the US wasn't sure how the word was to be spelt, they had a stab at it, and somehow infected the masses with that spelling, and that this should now be the preferred spelling. On the contrary, although most people understand what is meant when the word is spelt "funny", they prefer it to be spelt correctly, as in something which is "able" to "be collected", rather than something that is "ible" to be collected. One could imagine a four year old perhaps hearing the word as it's pronounced (ible) and thinking that is also how it is spelt. Perhaps the users of the spelling "collectible" would like to start putting entries in for foreseeible, repairible, searchible, maintainible, et cetera.....

In this encyclopedia, we should have the primary spelling as the heading, with the alternative as a secondary. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 61.95.20.70 (talk • contribs).

As there has been no response to this amendment, I will change the spelling as proposed —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 113.233.185 (talk • contribs).

The above argument ("ible" to be...) is complete nonsense. See the usage note in the -ible entry at Wiktionary. - dcljr (talk) 17:55, 19 April 2006 (UTC)

The OED is kind of the golden standard for English though. Pnkrockr 18:22, 12 October 2006 (UTC)