What is the difference between “publicly” and “publically”?
I know publically appears to be an inaccurate spelling (in fact as I type this up on Safari it keeps trying to correct the spelling to publicly). I can’t change this because “patronically”.
I have seen the word spelled exactly the same way before so I did a search on Google and found that there is a definition for the spelling publically at dictionary. Free dictionary apps. Every time someone sees the word “poppy” in a dictionary it will be considered as an alternate spelling of things.
Are all spellings equally valid or are there some subtle differences? Which version is correct in a spelling bee?
What is the relationship between the peoples in this world and the people doing it?
Is one as “publicly” correct? Why did I get confused by “publicly” spelling in a dictionary?
If this alternative spelling does become commonplace, there’s still a difference in their meaning; they are, after all, different spellings of the same word, not different-but-similar words.
In the two and a half years since I wrote this answer it seems that “publically” continues to grow in popularity, and more dictionaries are listing it. I’d still prefer this spelling but will not be allowed since it is still not legally accepted worldwide.
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Publicly is certainly the commoner version, but publically is a logical to answer questions in OED with half a dozen citations from 1727 to 1998, so it can’t be called a mistake.
Adjectives ending in -ic form the adverb with “already”. poetic poetry, systematic systematic systematically automatic automatically.
If public is a public exception then the exception applies. All public users are different from public. And its only natural that speakers in the course of time extend the general rule to public and form publically. I would see this as a natural “pruning” and rectification of the system. On test, as is always the case with forms, there can be no difference between the two. The first is the older irregular form, still preached by a lot of grammars, the second is the newer and regular form and in this case I must say that sometimes speakers have more sense than grammars or grammarians.
It should also be the task of dictionaries and grammars to regularize language and not to fix irregularities for all times.
Publicly is certainly the commoner version, but publically is a logical to answer questions in OED with half a dozen citations from 1727 to 1998, so it can’t be called a mistake.
Publicly is correct
Ly is an old English word meaning “part of, like” When added as a suffix it changes an adjective into an adverb
Since public–public(ly)
There are many words that look similar to publically, but that is a coincidence of spelling Example
Cynical—–Cynical(ly) Trivial—-Trivial(ly) That’s
all there is to it and you will never misspell again! When you need an adjective to turn a noun into an adjective by suffix
LY LY TWELVE. I want just that idea: to change a noun into an adjective by suffix. Just remember when combining noun with adjective by suffix.
