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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Tons of google hits, seems this is very common.
Strange – many seem to be simply using it to mean feasible, but some have a different sense to them – like the following:
“so we all just came from a “big bang” is SOOO much more thesible”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7QVbJnSPQE&eurl=
Differing from feasible which is more of whether or not something can be done practically, and more of an element of whether or not something is theoretically possible.
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I suspect this may be hypercorrection – assuming that ‘feasible’ is a corruption of ‘theasible’ as ‘yoof’ is of ‘youth’ for example. In addition to the 567 ‘thesibles’ you mention there are 152 ‘theasibles’ too. I’m intrigued by the possibility that the ff/th confusion may be far more widespread than I thought – or is there a simpler explanation?
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