On Sat, 12 Apr 2008 22:34:05 -0500, TaliesinSoft
<taliesinsoft@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> instead of the much more elegant, at least to me, "majuscule" and
>"minuscule" which directly refer to the characteristics of the letters
>themselves. Unfortunately, if I use majuscule and miniscule in
conversations
>most people have no idea what I am talking about.
Score: minuscule: 2, miniscule: 1
Even when you know better, it's not hard to do that.
More disturbingly, many people insist that "miniscule" is correct and
"minuscule" wrong.
I like the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary definition:
miniscule. adjective
a common spelling of minuscule that is not correct.
But does anyone listen....
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