In writing the previous post I used the word "dilemma" and I wasn't sure how to spell it. Actually I'm a very good speller (as long as I am not spelling the word 'misspelled') but I always check because I am paranoid about misspellings (and yes I'm using that word repeatedly so I can remember how to spell it.)
Dilemna looked right to me. So much so that I thought for sure that was how it was spelled. But because it was an odd word I thought I would look it up. Egads! Lo and behold it was not spelled dilemna, in fact it was spelled dilemma!
What a dilemma!
Who knew? All this time myself and an entire generation of mid-westerners had been spelling the word with an "N" when in fact it is spelled with two "M's!" ASIDE: speaking of english... did I do that M's thing correctly... with all the consecutive punctuation, I never know in which order it should all go... well, if I did it incorrectly don't give me a mulct.
So what I discovered in several blogs, most notably some guy named King who is a much better blogger than I and taught me the word mulct, is that an entire generation of American's throughout the midwest were incorrectly taught to spell the word with an "N." It has never been spelled with an N. The greek root is "lemma" and in all dictionaries the word is "dilemma" when suddenly in a part of America people decided to change it to "dilemna" and, apparently, nobody knows why.
Who is Tomahawks?
- Topher
- I am Tom Hawks. I live in Dayton. My wife is Miss T. Hawks, my daughters are She-Hawks and Lil Hawks. My son is Mohawk. We are the Dayton Tomahawks
