Dave Sill wrote:
>
> "Robert J. Bradbury" <bradbury@aeiveos.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 19 Mar 2001, Spike Jones wrote:
> >
> > > "Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> > >
> > > > [3 Extro-points if you can explain why "midievil" (or its variants) are
> > > > *not* in "The New Lexicon Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
> > >
> > > Becaaaaause you misspelled it? Did you mean medieval? Or were
> > > you actually referring to a song from the satanic hymnal played on
> > > an electronic keyboard? {8^D spike
> >
> > No, I checked both spellings. You can get both back from net
> > searches but neither is in the dictionary :-(.
> >
> > You get 0.1 Extro-points for proposing an answer.
> >
> > I'll offer up 1 Extro-point for someone who has a dictionary with
> > either spelling.
>
> http://www.dictionary.com/cgi-bin/dict.pl?term=medieval
>
> It's also in my Webster's II New Riverside University Dictionary.
Ah, well, Robert's dictionary is a 'new lexicon', i.e. new language,
while his spelling of midieval is, well, midievil in its historical
provenance, i.e. its no longer in use, while websters tends to hold onto
spellings that are centuries old...
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