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Perhaps you should use "electrical and electronic repair"
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>wrote:
> On Tue, 14 Jan 2014 22:57:36 -0500, Dave C <davec2468 -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:
>
> A friend and I are having a polite disagreement about these 2 terms.
>>
>> The phrase I've written is "electric and electronic repair". He says that
>> it should be "electrical and electronic repair".
>>
>> I say that the "ic" ending of the terms makes them parallel whereas the
>> "al" on one destroys this parallelism.
>>
>
> I'm not sure I understand why, but in this instance I feel that electrical
> is correct. Perhaps this example will help: The term "electrical
> engineering" is correct whereas "electric engineering" is not.
>
> English is twisty and irregular; you cannot expect parallelism everywhere,
> and there is no word electronical, thank goodness.
>
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