"sharable" false positive?

[polluks2]

See https://grammarist.com/spelling/sharable-shareable/

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Indeed, both variants can be found in:

• Cambridge
• Merriam-Webster
• Collins
• Wordsmyth
• Dictionary.com

A single dictionary has shareable only:

• Macmillan

Some dictionaries lack both:

• Oxford Learner's
• Longman
• Chambers

Google:

• shareable 276,000,000 hits
• sharable 12,500,000 hits

I really don't know. Perhaps move to rare?

[skangas]

Google:

* `shareable` [276,000,000 hits](https://www.google.com/search?q=shareable)

* `sharable` [12,500,000 hits](https://www.google.com/search?q=sharable)

I really don't know. Perhaps move to rare?

I think it's definitely not an error as such, so moving it to rare or deleting it outright sounds good to me. Perhaps there should even be a new dictionary which includes only the "generally preferred" spellings of words?

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

I guess the same might be told of other -able->-eable fixes.

Partial explanations here:

• When to drop the 'e' when ending in -able?
• Spelling Tips: When to Drop the “E”
• Drop the 'e' spelling rule
•  -able or -ible

BTW, there are also incorrect fixes the other way round (see #2693 and #2694):

resizeable->resizable
unuseable->unusable
useable->usable

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

Is anyone willing to push a merge request?

[matkoniecz]

Is anyone willing to push a merge request?

I am still waiting for my merge requests from 2021 to be processed :)

And in general bottleneck for external contributors for this project clearly is not at making pull requests - it is at processing them.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

@matkoniecz How is this related to this issue?

[matkoniecz]

@DimitriPapadopoulos Not strongly related to this specific issue, but is related to request to make a pull request for that issue.

[DimitriPapadopoulos]

I was under the impression that there is no consensus here, and probably no rules that define how to define and reach consensus. The way out is perhaps to define such rules, not tackle individual cases. Adding comments in unrelated issues will drain time resources that cannot be dedicated to defining such rules.

[polluks]

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=sharable%2Cshareable&year_start=1800&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3