Poll: a dilemma dilemna

[Saytan]

in recent days i've noticed more and more uses of the spelling "dilemma" - including one on an ad on several major IT news sites, and it started to irritate me to the point of apoplexy, until a check on dictionary.com revealed that "dilemma" is in fact correct

i have always held the belief that the correct spelling was dilemna - until relatively recently it was always the common form, particularly in UK based media.

what are ocukers thoughts on this word and its spelling?

 

[Aero]

To quote Ralph Wiggum " Me fail english? Thats unpossible!"

 

[gumbald]

It's "dilemma".

 

[Snakedoctor]

I really could not care less

 

[Gaz1988]

why do you care so much?

 

[Haircut]

I've never even heard of spelling it dilemna until your post.

 

[thelonecrouton]

Are you lysdexic by any chance?

 

[gumbald]

http://www.google.com/search?q=dilemna

The all-powerful Google wants to make you right.

 

[Saytan]

I really could not care less

Your contribution is invaluable. I really feel that your efforts have added something to my thread which it was sadly lacking previously.

 

[Shikkaka]

Do you pronounce it with an 'n' aswell?

"Die-Lem-Na"

 

[Saytan]

no. i've always spelled it that way though, and through a full education to degree level, have NEVER been corrected

 

[Saytan]

The Times

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article2490180.ece

and plenty of academic papers

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=dilemna&hl=en&lr=&start=10&sa=N


also have been seen using dilemna

 

[Nix]

I think you're just being special.

 

[JodieO]

I'e always written it as dilemna, dilemma just looks so wrong.

 

[uber soldat]

I've never even heard of spelling it dilemna until your post.

Neither had i

 

[daz]

'di' and 'lemma', litterally from latin or greek... two arguments

 

[Duff-Man]

This thread could have been solved rather quickly by dictionary.com.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/dilemna

"No results found for dilemna.
Did you mean dilemma?"


edit - you already mentioned dictionary.com. I am retarded this morning. Apologies.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

Always love posts asking about correct spellings of words, you're always guaranteed some comedy responses.

Who cares? Spelling's for idiots, you fail at life, why don't you just go and kill yourself?

I've never seen "dilemna" before, always used dilemma. Curse my probable wrongness.

 

[benjo plz.]

Avoid the dilemna and use predicament instead?

This thread could have been solved rather quickly by dictionary.com.

Wrong. JodieG is not the only person who uses this word, It is a valid spelling.

 

[Reeve]

I'e always written it as dilemna, dilemma just looks so wrong.

So does lose in my opinion(im sure many would disagree ) but it doesn't make it right