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Stop Saying Divissive
                            
Verbs that end in -ide produce adjectives ending in -isive where the “i” sound is preserved:
decisive
derisive
incisive
In contrast, verbs ending in -mit produce adjectives ending in -issive, with a double s to keep the i short:
dismissive
permissive
submissive
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