SUPERSEDE
SUPERSEDE
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This may have been discussed before, but my pet peeve is SUPERCEDE. To me it is only SUPERSEDE, even though the lexicons now show it both ways. My english professor drove that one into my head years ago, and it stuck. I have seen writers whom I normally respect spelling it with a "C", and it truly irritates me.





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- Steve
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Supercede has occurred as a spelling variant of supersede since the 17th century, and it is common in current published writing. It continues, however, to be widely regarded as an error
Believe it if you need it or leave it if you dare. - Robert Hunter
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"supercede" has not superseded "supersede" as the proper spelling?
DaveAtkins
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Must try harder...
My wife gets upset by licence and license. It try telling here it's a Brit thing but...
Licence to Kill really bugged her apparently. I pointed out it was a British film (more or less) but she wasn't placated.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Google search for supercede gives 714000
Google search for supersede gives 2200000
Guess websites are not considered published writing.
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Mike McCann
McCann Engineering
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supercede 4750000
supersede 18900000
Still out by a factor of 4.
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Bill
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Only you san deside that.
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supersede
/soprseed/
• verb take the place of; supplant.
— USAGE The standard spelling is supersede rather than supercede.
— ORIGIN Latin supersedere ‘be superior to’.
KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
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(Besides, there are probably more cases in which US spelling has "s" and UK has "c" than the other way around--license, offense, defense on the one side vs. practice on the other.)
Hg
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KENAT, probably the least qualified checker you'll ever meet...
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Now he supersedes the giant as the owner of the golden goose.
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
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There is no castle left: it fell down with the beanstalk.
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Bill Gates tells me it is supersedes and that is good enough for me even though I'd like to use supercedes because it just "feels" right.
But, it just got red-lined by Big Bill G who is watching what I write even now, and Boy, if Homeland Security was as on the ball as he is..... but who am I to argue with Big Bill? I don't want another plague of blue screens which forced me out of Win 98 into XP.
I'd like to suggest to Big Bill a transatlantic spelling (never mind your Latin, what have the Romans ever done for us? I mean, apart from roads, public health....)
So I suggest Superscede as in descends, incandescent.
Nope, Big Bill just threatened me again and I don't want to have to upgrade to Vista just yet.
(Curious, "Win" is not red-lined but "XP" is....)
JMW
www.ViscoAnalyser.com
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
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I wouldn't want to switch over to the UK dictionary though. Spellings like "colour" and "civilise" wouldn't fly at all, though "grey" pops up once in awhile.
Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
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Matt Lorono
CAD Engineer/ECN Analyst
Silicon Valley, CA
Lorono's SolidWorks Resources
Co-moderator of Solidworks Yahoo! Group
and Mechnical.Engineering Yahoo! Group
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If you feel like a riot
Dont you deny it
Put your good foot forward....
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I'm not sure when this happened. I grew up with "gauge" (US but with a pretty heavy dose of non-US). Then I walked into an engineering classroom in 1995 and saw "gage" in all the textbooks. Bothered the hell outta me. I learned to accept it, but I still toss in "gauge" here and there just to feel better.
Hg
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I read somewhere (reference escapes me) that the Yank spelling supersedes (see, not OT at all) the British spelling.
- Steve
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Language eh?
- Steve
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Hg
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If you feel like a riot
Dont you deny it
Put your good foot forward....
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Small plums.
Bill
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Nah, not really, I am an amateur, amateur gardener and they also grow wild along some of the local footpaths.
Bill