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  1. Newsgroups: sci.math
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!linac!mp.cs.niu.edu!rusin
  3. From: rusin@mp.cs.niu.edu (David Rusin)
  4. Subject: Re: spell this?
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan12.180739.13759@mp.cs.niu.edu>
  6. Organization: Northern Illinois University
  7. References: <1isvrsINNe11@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> <1993Jan12.070026.18380@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
  8. Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 18:07:39 GMT
  9. Lines: 13
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  11. In article <1isvrsINNe11@master.cs.rose-hulman.edu> goddard@NeXTwork.Rose-Hulman.Edu (Bart E. Goddard) writes:
  12. >
  13. >The raging debate here is the correct spelling of (choose one and 
  14. >supply a reference):
  15. >
  16. >a) nilpotentcy
  17. >b) nilpotency
  18. >c) other
  19. grep -i tcy /usr/dict/words
  20. bankruptcy
  21.  
  22. So I would say that the -tcy ending is not at all common in English.
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