16 January 2013

Resiliance versus Resiliancy

I came across this sentence in my own writing:

"Resiliency is accomplished through properly configured..."

I thought it looked weird. According to the grammarist, I wasn't wrong.

"Both nouns mean the ability to recovery quickly from illness or misfortune. But resilience is far more common than resiliency, especially outside the U.S. and Canada."

Wrong or not, I decided to go with the herd and use resilience.

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