preventative?

Probably when someone was inattentative... sigh...

Unfortunately, the language has taken a beating in recent years with the slump in skills. I see so many folks writing on the Internet, including on sites specifically for writing, who seem to need a brush-up on their language skills and grammar usage. The decline in the good use of language has been accelerated by the shortening of words for text messaging, which seems to have made its way into a lot of other writing too.

I'm wondering the same thing about indention and indentation. I think we sometimes alter words or add or delete syllables because our emendations make them easier to say. The new words might have more syllables, but the syllable combinations are often more pleasing to the tongue.

Hi perrygunight. The word "preventative" does exist, according to the Fourth Edition of the "Little Oxford Dictionary" compiled by George Ostler in 1969. Who would've thought huh lol...

That's a very good question you have there. It depends on how you say it actually.