to Jim Dixon regarding Preventative/preventative So I see when I do a search on google, but it also asks "did you mean PREVENTIVE?" COuld it be a usage that is predominately English/preventative, American /preventive? If you do a search for Preventive, you will also find lots od organizations calling themselves Preventive etc. I was taught this was incorect or colloquial, and I just guess I accepted the information as fact and should have been more questioning, but at least in America, it seems to be the more accepted usage. will do more digging on it