Dilemna

[nq:1]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vs dilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
I must admit I've never seen the word dilemna before this.

[nq:1]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vs dilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
Keeping the 'm' and 'n' separately articulated is about as hard as saying, 'inportant'.

Opening her own letter Dorothea saw that it was a lively continuation of his remonstrance with her fanatical sympathy and her wan

[nq:2]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vs dilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
[nq:1]I must admit I've never seen the word dilemna before this.[/nq]
I'd say it's just a spelling error. "Dilemna" doesn't show up at onelook.com. Google has a Richoux ratio for dilemma/dilemna of almost 100/1. And at lea

[nq:1]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vs dilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
1. Dilemna is an error, not a variant spelling, asevidenced by dictionaries.

2. Factual sources (e.g. dictionaries) are not ipsofacto infallible but remain a better source than
subjective intuitions or theories of

[nq:2]I must admit I've never seen the word dilemna before this.[/nq]
[nq:1]I'd say it's just a spelling error. "Dilemna" doesn't show up at onelook.com. Google has a Richoux ratio for dilemma/dilemna ... about the misspelling. I don't know why the OP found "dilemna" "more natural." Jane Austen didn't name her novel "Emna."[/nq]
Although I'm looking forward to the forthcoming production of

[nq:1]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vs dilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
OED has only one usage of the word, in a cite for definition 1b of 'horned':
"b. Logic. horned syllogism (argument, etc.): the dilemma.
1548 Horned question (see horn n. 27). 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1580)34b, Dilemna, o

[nq:2]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vs dilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
[nq:1]I must admit I've never seen the word dilemna before this.[/nq]
Nor I.
The English word is from Greek 'lemma'. There is a Greek word 'lemna' but it's irrelevant here - it means some kind of plant. Many Greek word

[nq:2]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vsdilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
[nq:1]OED has only one usage of the word, in a cite for definition 1b of 'horned': "b. Logic. horned syllogism ... dilemma is a double lemma and lemma is never properly spelt lemna except when it's duckweed. John Dean Oxford[/n

[nq:2]OED has only one usage of the word, in a ... spelt lemna except when it's duckweed. John Dean Oxford[/nq]
[nq:1]More natural because though all the dictionaries I could find spellit "dilemma", the majority of people I know spell it ... old. It isn't an ordinary error as it hasapparently been spread through the printed word. (Why else the illogical spelling?)[/nq]
I'm surprised you've

[nq:1]Does anyone know the history of the spelling "dilemna" (vs dilemma)? The first seems more natural but is apparently considered incorrect despite its wide use.[/nq]
http://www.onelook.com/ says there's no such word.
Milner and miller meant the same at one time. Might be a clue.

Milner is Yiddish for miller a