My professional work in training and documentation often involves translating from "geek speak" to normal American English (if there is such a thing!). I'm hoping this Tribe can help with perplexing issues that come up from time to time - especially in the technical writing arena. I hope that I can also add to some of the topics that others post...

Here's my question for the evening. Is "compliance" or "compliancy" a better lexical choice when describing conformance with a technical standard? For example, "Click the ABC button to verify (compliance or compliancy?) of your file with the XYZ standard."

I usually trust my "ears" in such matters, and they wince at "compliancy." A Google search has revealed that both spellings are used on web pages, but the majority vote is not necessarily "correct" or even representative on the Web.

What do you think? Thanks!