On 05/02/2008, Florence Devouard
<Anthere9(a)yahoo.com> wrote:
During the past few weeks, I learned to transform
my "responsability" in
"responsibility".
So, independence is next in line :-)
I was surprised when I got to the UK to discover that "dependant"
(both adjective and noun) is in common, even government, use here -
it's regarded as just wrong in Australia. But I've never seen
"independant" in official use, and "dependent" remains correct (more
correct I think personally).
The Canadian Income Tax Act uses both
"dependent" and "dependant" to
distinguish between the adjective and noun.
Ec