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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Dictionary dot com loves to debase the spelling.


9 posted on 03/18/2017 7:01:05 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

The ‘summersault’ spelling is attested in the OED by numerous examples from recognized writers in the 18th and 19th century. Anyway, it is a corruption of Middle French ‘sombresault’, so there is no historically correct way of spelling it.


18 posted on 03/18/2017 7:49:41 PM PDT by proxy_user
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To: Olog-hai

I do believe I saw where Chelsea C. has something to do with Dictionary.com, among other things like Expedia.


24 posted on 03/18/2017 8:36:30 PM PDT by digger48
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