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- From: bovik@eecs.nwu.edu (James Salsman)
- Subject: Re: More evidence for "dilemna"
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.170819.12519@eecs.nwu.edu>
- Summary: not in O.E.D. 2nd
- Keywords: dilemna (for) dilemma
- Organization: BRI
- References: <92Jul21.105335edt.173@smoke.cs.toronto.edu> <1992Jul21.163547.3281@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 17:08:19 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.163547.3281@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes:
- >Re the Toronto library catalog: The thing to do is look at the actual
- >[eight] books and see if "dilemna" is printed on them, or if it was a typing
- >error when the data was put in the catalog.
- >
- >The UGa library catalog has
- > "Corporate social responsiveness: the modern dilemna [sic]"
- >and
- > "The death of Ramon Gonzalez: the modern agricultural dilemna"
- >
- >Does the OED list "dilemna"?
-
- No, and there is no such spelling under the head "dilemma," which
- gives the etymology roughly as ancient Latin from Greek di (two) +
- lemma (proposition.) [Courtesy OX2/pat server.]
-
- This is the kind of thing I would love to see tracked down. I have
- no guess, and the clues are weak.
-
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