From: Anton Sherwood Message: 5942 Date: 2005-09-06
Anton Sherwood wrote (July 26):
> To a first approximation, a word has -ant/-ance/-ancy
> if its root is a Latin a-stem verb, -e- otherwise.
On second thought, since -a- is more usual for coinages from non-Latin
roots, it would be more accurate to say the ending has -e- if the root
is a Latin verb other than an a-stem.
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Anton Sherwood, http://www.ogre.nu/
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