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Unlike -ible, -able is a living suffix in the sense of being fully productive: you can add it to virtually any verb to make an adjective, even if there currently isn’t one. The words ending in -ible, by contrast, make up a finite list: they are all in the dictionary, and new ones aren’t being created.
Garner's Modern English Usage
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