"Ping Huang" <pshuang@alum.mit.edu> writes:
> Merriam-Webster online documents "supersede" as the main spelling, and
> "supercede" only as a variant. Wish I could access OED online, but
> I'll assume that the OED agrees with Merriam-Webster on this point.
OK, I'll bite, seeing as how there's a twenty-year-old OED Compact
Edition not two feet to my right ... [flip, flip] ... Superbly,
Superbness, Superbous, Supercargo, here we go:
Supercede: var. (now erron.) of Supersede.
That seems pretty definitive.
In any case the relevant RFCs would determine the correct spelling of
the mail header, even if they spelled it ScrewUToo. Any relation of
mail header keywords to the Queen's English is purely coincidental.
regards, tom lane
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