I say edible, but someone I know argues that it is eatable. I come from Canada, and find eatable to be wrong. Can both be used? or only one of the two?
2006-11-22 05:16:17 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
Both are valid. Some people use eatable to mean able to be eaten (which would include essentially anything that could be physically ingested) and edible to mean good as food. Food that has gone bad, for example, would be eatable but not edible. But this is not distinction you would always find in the dictionary.
2006-11-22 05:30:06 · answer #1 · answered by Sangmo 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Everyone understands and is comfortable with edible.
Using "eatable" may or may not be correct to the English purists, but most people will just assume you mis-spoke.
Have you ever heard the phrase that so and so has a nickel vocabulary and is always using twenty-five cent words.
2006-11-22 05:21:38 · answer #2 · answered by Two dimes and a Nickel 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edible. And I'm 100% American English Major.
2006-11-22 05:19:04 · answer #3 · answered by Girl with Kaleidoscope Eyes 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
edible , eatable is not a word
2006-11-22 05:27:03 · answer #4 · answered by qwerty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think the correct term is edible..eatable is slang..i use both...
2006-11-22 05:18:26 · answer #5 · answered by claria 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
edible! eatable's not a word as far as i know!
2006-11-22 05:18:21 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edible...
2006-11-22 05:24:10 · answer #7 · answered by ♥ dreamweaver ♥ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Edible is correct.
2006-11-22 05:32:15 · answer #8 · answered by Robin L 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it's edible and only edible.
2006-11-22 05:24:12 · answer #9 · answered by BROWNITE 4-ever 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
edible
2006-11-22 05:34:13 · answer #10 · answered by utiliza otro apodo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋