DimitriPapadopoulos
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4 months ago Yes, the difficulty is that I cannot find that word in most mainstream curated dictionaries, either as parsable or as parseable:
However, OED does have it, as parsable only:
I usually suggest we follow SCOWL (And Friends), as the mainstream open source spelling database, but unfortunately it lacks both parsable and parseable: http://app.aspell.net/lookup?dict=en_US-large;words=unparsable http://app.aspell.net/lookup?dict=en_US-large;words=unparseable On the other hand, it has both writable and writeable.
The commercial spellchecker I have tried does suggest to replace parseable with parseable.
Searching parsable vs parseable comes up with pages mostly (but not always) suggesting to use parsable instead of parseable, for example:
- https://word.tips/spelling/parsable-vs-parseable/
- https://whichiscorrect.com/parsable-vs-parseable/#google_vignette
Grammar books suggest that the final silent e of the root word is dropped, except if the root word ends in ce or ge. That usually remains a suggestion, but I feel parsable should be preferred in formal usage.
The Google Ngram Viewer shows parsable remains more common than parseable, but the difference is not significant enough to rule out parseable: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=unparsable%2Cunparseable&year_start=1800
In any case, if we are to remove this entry, we should review other occurrences of -eable for consistency:
$ grep 'eable->' codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt | wc -l
87
$ 
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https://github.com/codespell-project/codespell/blob/3760e619e2a7b7fa8467debb2889d21a34651853/codespell_lib/data/dictionary.txt#L58550 Wiktionary says since 2008 https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unparseable