Difference between revisions of "Defendable"

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Follow the prejudices about language use current among your readers – especially among your teachers, for they may also be your assessors.
 
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Revision as of 18:00, 2 August 2007

To those of the older generation, there is no such word. The traditional English word is defensible. However, the other makes perfectly good sense, is formed by regular patterns of word-formation in English, and is often seen in the Business School.

Follow the prejudices about language use current among your readers – especially among your teachers, for they may also be your assessors.