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From: | James |
Subject: | Re: 2.19.56 Learning Manual, part 2 |
Date: | Sat, 11 Mar 2017 15:44:38 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.7.0 |
Hello On 11/03/17 14:34, Knute Snortum wrote:
3.3.4 Modifying context properties ... Similarly, if the property name is mis-spelt...It looks like misspelt is misspelt!
No, I don't think it is.Spelt is an acceptable equivalent to the past tense of spell - at least in British English (as well as being a very old variety of Wheat) in case people were thinking of mis-spelled (which is also OK).
Also the hyphenated mis-spelt vs misspelt is acceptable as well (at least in British English) in this case the 'mis-' is a prefix to the verb in the past tense and, in my opinion, preferable to the double 'ss' version of the non-hyphenated version as it visually conveys the idea more clearly.
e.g. Mis-appropriate, Mis-understanding, Mis-apprehend etc. All acceptable if unusual.
although I've never seen 'mistake written as 'mis-take' but have also never seen 'mistook' either (as opposed to mis-took).
JamesP.S. Sky-scraper and news-paper are some more words that have had the hyphen dropped from them to make them into a single word.
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