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These adjectives are broadly synonymous, but they can be differentiated. What is "edible" is capable of being eaten without danger, or fit for consumption {edible plants} -- e.g.: "The autumn olive, which many conservationists viewed until recent years as ideal, is appealing because its berries are edible by deer and birds, and the plants grow quickly and hold back erosion." Anne Paine, "Autumn Olive Deemed Too Invasive," Tennessean, 1 Oct. 1996, at B1.

What is "eatable" is at least minimally enjoyable or palatable {the food at that restaurant isn't even eatable}. E.g.: "Along the way, they've maintained a live-and-let-live attitude with the gawkers who show up to watch as they paw through the garbage and recycle the eatable morsels." George Snyder, "Dump Bears May Pose Menace," S.F. Chron., 29 July 1995, at A13.

"Eatable" is often used as an attributive noun, usually in the plural -- e.g.: "These people produce eatables most of us enjoy." Letter of Robert E. Smith Jr., "Hog Producers Get Bad Rap," Morning Star (Wilmington, N.C.), 10 June 1996, at A6.

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Quotation of the Day: "Scarcely any advice can be of more constant importance than the advice to read your work aloud as you go along, listening to it carefully, and thus submitting it at every step to the test of the ear." John F. Genung, Outlines of Rhetoric 159 (1893).