At 12:51 AM 12/6/00 -0500, Tom wrote:
>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.
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"The correct spelling, take it or leave it, is 'supersede' (dictionaries do
not allow 'supercede'). A useful way to remember this [S spelling] is the
meaning of the word itself, which is to Suppant someone or something."
Godfrey Howard: The Good English Guide- English Usage in the 1990s
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The guy who knew his latin roots should already have put an end to this. I
suspect the only reason some dictionaries list 'supercede' as an
alternative is because so many people (and indeed dictionaries, it seems)
get it wrong.
-- Archer http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/6413/End.
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