WildWest, the word 'automatic', if you put the suffix '-
cal' (meaning '
pertaining to') attached
to its end, would seem to make a word 'automatical', and so that result may be said to conform
to
that 'rule' of english language linguistics
- so possibly before 1900's or probably back in the
time of Isaac Newton maybe it was used. However, the word 'automatical'
does not exist in
english in modern times. To use 'automatical' in english language in modern times is wrong,
because the modern convention is to use
only these forms of the word;
automatic,
automatically,
automated,
automation. That is why you will
never see printed e.g. an
'automatical machine gun
',
- the accepted modern usage is instead e.g. an
'automatic machine gun
'.
I'm not a Professor of English Linguistics and so cannot explain why this is the modern convention.
in that you cite collinsdictionary - yes, collinsdictionary shows it
like this - "
automatical=automatic", but that is
a poor way by collinsdisctionary to show
it in that manner - if they want to show it, what they
should show instead is like this;
automatical [archaic word], use instead automatic (as noun or adjective) or automatically (adverb)
For
proof, you can
check any other english book dictionary or online dictionary such as;
http://dictionary.cambridge.org
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/automatical
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/automatical
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/automatical?s=t
etc., and you will see that 'automatical' either returns
no result or returns a result that
says it is 'archaic' (meaning from old times and not suitable for modern usage), and will
then give acceptable modern words instead.
As for IEEE,
again visit http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/search/searc ... al&x=0&y=0
and you will see
a strange thing - almost every scientific item with 'automatical' is
authored
by asians, and the
very few 'english looking' names seem to be submitting the scientific
paper from, or associated with, e.g. an Institute in France, a University in Germany, etc....
Also, that IEEE webpage does not give a number for how many items
1985 to 2014 it has
searched through, but at
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/aboutUs.jsp it states "Approximately
25,000 new documents are added to IEEE Xplore
each month". There are only
125 results
on that IEEE search page (oldest item result is dated 1985), so you can understand that
occaisionally, rarely, the wrong wording may be used even in such items, even in their title.
Even if you google "automatical ", when you carefully go through the results, you realize that it's
either a dictionary program actually only 'matching' to the 'nearest similar word' [i.e. word actually],
or text from an 1800's dictionary being shown, or a 'non-native english' person using it on a webpage,
or a spelling mistake, etc..
Consider that the dataset is so large (the internet) that if 'automatical' existed in modern english,
there
should be plenty of examples of texts from english speaking countries and by 'modern
native english speakers' using it -
but there are not, so if this is not proof, then certainly logical
reasoning alone gives that 'automatical' does not exist in modern english and/or that it is not used
by modern native english speakers.
Cheers