A useful piece at the Columbia Journalism Review chewing over the difference between words like electric and electrical or historic and historical.
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When words end in -al
The Herald, Dominion and ZB each seem to have dispensed with the distinction between ‘historic’ and ‘historical’. Perhaps because they never knew there was a difference or maybe they fired all the competent subs. Either way, it makes some of their sentences nonsensical.