dilemna

[Michael Quinion]

Arnold Zwicky commented,

> discussed here in november 2008.  now a longer treatment in Michael
> Quinion's World Wide Words #696  7/24/10.

It's at http://www.worldwidewords.org/nl/zcsp.htm#N4. I much regret that I
didn't recall the discussion, or think to search the ADS archives for it,
when writing the piece.

I've already had one subscriber contact me to say she was surprised to
hear the word was actually "dilemma" as she had been taught the other
spelling in Indiana in the 1950s.

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Michael Quinion
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