Google results: priable = 136 results, pryable = 69 results. Too few to be significant, I think. Dictionary.com and Word’s spell check both do not recognize “pryable” nor “priable.”
Okay, the word I’m trying to -able-ize is “pry” – can anyone help me out here? Which and why?
Thanks, fellow 'Dopers.
Um can you give a context ? I’m having a hard time imagining when you’d have ‘pry’ as a an ‘-able’ but if you really want to I’d be more tempted to go for ‘-iable’ since the ‘y’ changes to ‘i’ in the past form.
According to Dictionary.com “fly” becomes “flyable.” So if you must -able-ize “pry,” go with “pryable.” But for formal writing, I would go with “that can be pried.”
Open the only pryable hatch.
Open the only hatch that can be pried.
oh :smack: Freudian slip !
I was only thinking of ‘pry’ as ‘snoop’, you know like “She’s always prying into other people’s affairs” don’t think badly of me.