Etiquet

[Bill Palmer]

"Cigarette" used to be spelled "cigaret" sometimes, too, altho I don't of
any convention that governed it, or even if it's still done.

I'm betting there are plenty of other examples.

Bill Palmer

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From: "David A. Daniel" <dad at POKERWIZ.COM>
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Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2010 12:46 PM
Subject: Etiquet


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> Was just reading a Time magazine article from 1932 and they spelled
> etiquette etiquet. Anybody know if Time was in an English-simplification
> mode at that time, or some such?
> DAD
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