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Only one of these, extensible, was a word at all until the 1940s[0], and extendable is still the less common word.

This is the not-uncommon case where the irregular form is slowly losing ground to the regular form. It's possible that in a century, 'extensible' will be considered archaic.

[0] https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=extendable%2C+...



Wow, that’s fascinating. Thanks for thinking of using google’s ngram tool. I have played around with it a few times but it completely slipped my mind.




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