Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

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Linchpin : are you indispensable? / Seth Godin ; illustrations by Jessica Hagy and Hugh MacLeod

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The use statistics are: 35 for indispensible vs. 1887 for indispensable, so it is overwhelmingly in favour of the latter. Google ngram confirms that this is not a particularly recent trend, and that the two words were used competitively until 1840, where usage seems to have settled on indispensable.

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Oh, sorry i wrongly typed "indispensable" to "indispensible". The original sentence was " His article was indispensable to the company". But I came to wonder if it was possible to change 'to' to 'for' without changing the meaning, or if the meaning changes, what would be the difference. This is kind of a same question with the second question ...

the monkey wrench being the most indispensable item for a plumber scissors being the most indispensable item for a tailor etc. A different but equally useful direction of meaning would be a term for an item which is guaranteed to be present in a certain line of business or endeavor. For example:

Indispensable nutrients (including amino acids) are those without which life is impossible. Indispensable nutrients that cannot be internally produced, but must be consumed from some external source, are called essential. " Essential " is a scientific term of art in nutrition (i.e. it has a fixed, universally understood meaning); " indispensable " is not. As a result, the two are sometimes ...