Supercede or Supersede

[Finman]

If I remember my high school Latin well, should be with an s as from super sedere... should translate to something like to sit on top, or over something.

Look from etymology dictionary. It is said there..

 

[TryingToLetThemBee]

I am supercilious of this whole thread.

But "supersession" was a learning moment, although "supersedure" is in the OED.

 

[Fusion_power]

Is that spelt divorge or divorce!!

Around here, it is spelled "disgorge" cause that is what you do. Interesting aside, we would use "spelled" instead of "spelt". If I said "spelt" I would be discussing a primitive form of wheat.

 

[Finman]

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We spell here divorge "bänks".

 

[Motobiman]

OED

Usage

The standard spelling is supersede rather than supercede. The word is derived from the Latin verb supersedere but has been influenced by the presence of other words in English spelled with a c, such as intercede and accede. The c spelling is recorded as early as the 16th century; although still generally regarded as incorrect, it is now entered without comment in some modern dictionaries.

So pedants use supersede and the rest of the world spells it incorrectly.

 

[bontbee]

So supercede is basically (and definitely) Wrong

Do you mean fundamentally, rather than basically, wrong?

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

Do you mean fundamentally, rather than basically, wrong?

both, basically

 

[Motobiman]

I tried this out on my wife, who has nothing to do with bees, and she immediately spelled it with a "c" which as she is a retired school teacher surprised me. But she pointed out proceed, procedure, and precede are all spelled with "c". But she said things to do with bees are not of any interest to her.

Did she teach English?