Nonsensible and sensical...

[nq:1]Since "nonsensical" is a word, how come "sensical" is not a word? And since "nonsensical" and "sensible" are words, how come "nonsensible" is not a word? Or am I just being nonsensical? Cheers, Ali[/nq]
Ali
Your question is very ept, and it makes me very gruntled when people post such stuff.
Will.

[nq:2]Since "nonsensical" is a word, how come "sensical" is not ... is not a word? Or am I just being nonsensical?[/nq]
You are being naive to think that English is logical.

"The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse ***. We don't just borrow words;
on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways t

[nq:1]Since "nonsensical" is a word, how come "sensical" is not a word? And since "nonsensical" and "sensible" are words, how come "nonsensible" is not a word? Or am I just being nonsensical?[/nq]
There are words sensical and non-sensible. They've just died out in modern English a phenomenon that occurs all the time, and not only in English.

Regards, WB.

[nq:1]Since "nonsensical" is a word, how come "sensical" is not a word?[/nq]
Isn't it? The SOED5 entry is, admittedly, short:
?sensical, adjective.
rare. L18?M19.
(from SENSE noun + -ICAL.)
Sensible.
OED2 add some citations:
?"sensical, a.
(f. sense n. + -ical.)
Sensible.

1797 S. J. Pratt Family Secrets in Monthly Rev. XXIII. 60 (Uses?sensical? and ?sen

[nq:1]Since "nonsensical" is a word, how come "sensical" is not a word? And since "nonsensical" and "sensible" are words, how come "nonsensible" is not a word? Or am I just being nonsensical?[/nq]
You're falling into the predictable trap of assuming words don't exist if you haven't seen or heard them being used. "sensical" and "nonsensible" are both words, both attested to in the OED and, I as

[nq:1]You're falling into the predictable trap of assuming words don't exist if you haven't seen or heard them being used. "sensical" and "nonsensible" are both words, both attested to in the OED and, I assume, other major dictionaries. You just don't hear them much anymore.[/nq]
It seems they are obscure dictionaries, considering that both return zero hits on OneLook. But Google brings up 105

[nq:1]You are being naive to think that English is logical. "The problem with defending the purity of the English language ... has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." James D. Nicoll[/nq]
If there is nothing worth keeping long little is kept. See below.
[nq:2]Your question is very ept, and it makes me very gruntled wh

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[nq:2]You're falling into the predictable trap of assuming words don't ... other major dictionaries. You just don't hear them much anymore.[/nq]
[nq:1]It seems they are obscure dictionaries, considering that both return zero hits on OneLook.[/nq]
If you think OED is obscure I congratulate you on your modernity. If you think Onelook's collection of links definitive you shoul

Opposite of "demanize"? CDB

John Dean filted:
[nq:2]I bet these obscure dictionaries list "manise" and/or "manize" as well?[/nq]
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Some people put it on sandwiches..r