poprock wrote:What sort of fucking moron thinks dilemma should be spelled with an ‘n’? I’ve never seen or heard of anyone doing that before.
mk64 wrote:damnit is surely from darn-it?
poprock wrote:What sort of fucking moron thinks dilemma should be spelled with an ‘n’? I’ve never seen or heard of anyone doing that before.
This really. It was stuck in my head as having the silent n, like I'd been taught it at school...if i saw dilemma I assumed it was an Americanisation.Andy wrote:When the 'dilemna' think came up on Kermode & Mayo, people contacted the show saying they thought they'd been taught it that way at school, and they had certainly never been corrected. Given that words like 'damn' or 'condemn' include a now-silent 'n' after the 'm', 'dilemna' doesn't look like an unnatural spelling unless you know the correct spelling. I seem to recall that some dictionaries now include it as a common misspelling.
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