Etiquet

[Wilson Gray]

I recall "cigaret." As a WAG, it seems to me that such spellings were merely
a "style" that came and went, possibly motivated by the interpretation of
AmE spelling as a "deliterization" or "defrancifcation" of BrE spelling.

-Wilson

On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Bill Palmer <w_a_palmer at bellsouth.net>wrote:

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> "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.
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> I'm betting there are plenty of other examples.
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> Bill Palmer
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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
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