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From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix overridable written with an extra 'e'
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2009 15:15:29 +0000
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On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 4:53 AM, Junio C Hamano<gitster@pobox.com> wrot=
e:
> Hmph, I don't know. =A0Googling "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

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.

Have fun,

Avery