[Libre-soc-dev] [OT] connexions

whygee at f-cpu.org whygee at f-cpu.org
Thu May 27 21:54:02 BST 2021


On 2021-05-27 20:36, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:05:43AM +0200, Jean-Paul Chaput wrote:
>>   Now that I also have manually and one by one checked the connexions
> 
> Almost no one knows that the Oxford English Dictionary (the complete 
> on-paper
> edition I got in the 60's) recommends the spelling "connexion" instead 
> of
> "connection"  This is the first time I've seen it outside the 
> dctionary, and I
> enjoyed it.
> 
> -- hendrik

This is also the French spelling.
I don't know where/when/why the spelling bifurcated,
probably in the US.
yg



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