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Topic Options #206533 - 07/29/12 07:43 AM resilience/resilency and other "ncy" words J Linn stranger Registered: 07/29/12 Posts: 1 i came across the word "resiliency" in a sports column and wondered: "What happened to resilience?" which means the same? Then it occurred to me there is a group of abstract nouns formed from adjectives that follow the same pattern. Constance/constancy. Hesitance/hesitancy. Dependence/dependency. And so on. (But not independence/independency.) What is going on here? Why the duplication? Top #206535 - 07/29/12 09:25 AM Re: resilience/resilency and other "ncy" words [Re: J Linn] Candy Pooh-Bah Registered: 09/21/10 Posts: 1705 Loc: down under Maybe its just personal choice.... Good observation though. Top #206589 - 08/04/12 03:43 PM Re: resilience/resilency and other "ncy" words [Re: Candy] A C Bowden journeyman Registered: 10/22/10 Posts: 75 Loc: London, UK But they're not always interchangeable: "His excellence and constancy are an example to us all." "His Excellency and Constance are an example to us all." Then there's emergence/emergency... Top #206590 - 08/04/12 04:44 PM Re: resilience/resilency and other "ncy" words [Re: J Linn] Faldage Carpal Tunnel Registered: 12/01/00 Posts: 13657 I hope you're not expecting consistency from language, nor consistence neither. Top Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. (have been consolidated into a single forum above) ------   Words from medicine   Beheading words   Meta-words   Words from classical mythology   Animal Safari   Words with unusual etymologies   Eponyms or words derived from people's names.   Loanwords from German   English as a global language Moderator:  Jackie  Print Topic Switch to Threaded Mode View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM Add to your Watched Users View posts View profile Send a PM View homepage Add to your Watched Users View posts Forum Stats 8426 Members 16 Forums 13687 Topics 209797 Posts Max Online: 3341 @ 12/09/11 02:15 PM Newest Members sylviasuper, continent2, a2teacher, teepee, smoothcriminal86 8426 Registered Users Who's Online 0 registered (), 21 Guests and 2 Spiders online. Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod Top Posters (30 Days) LukeJavan8 87 wofahulicodoc 56 jenny jenny 56 endymion6 49 Rhubarb Commando 37 BranShea 33 Faldage 14 Buffalo Shrdlu 14 zmjezhd 13 tsuwm 11 May Su M Tu W Th F Sa 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31

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