Never

you already did.

hmmmm odd question - how do you spell Dilemna?


Saw it spelt wrongly (definitely wrongly) on here, was certain it should be as above, but an online search says that's wrong and it's actually Dilemma. it's always been Dilemna as far as i was concerned indeed when i first saw Dilemma i assumed it was a stupid americanisation but seemingly it is the correct spelling despite looking utterly wrong

Until now i have never seen it spelt Dilemma, only ever as Dilemna. I iz confuzzled

I thought it was just 1 m?

It's dilemma. I've never seen dilemna before.

http://www.dilemna.info/

seems it's Dilemma that has recently come about. Dilemna has been in use since at least 1720.

I didn't think it could be wrong considering the number of years it had seemingly been around without teachers getting corrected.

i made the mistake of using Bing for the first search, and used google for the second, which brought up results other than american ones

http://www.ja606.co.uk/articles/viewArticle/129224

as if definiteive evidence was needed - a search on google books

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22dilemna%22&tbs=bks%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1800%2Ccd_max%3A1820&lr=lang_en


so there you go, as if you care - unless you want to appear to be american, it's Dilemna

The incorrect spelling dilemna is often seen in common usage

The incorrect spelling dilemna is often seen in common usage
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that's from wiki, no doubt written by an american. I'll trust hundreds of years of scholars before i'll trust a random bod on wiki

It's dilemma. I've never seen dilemna before.
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that's what id have said too.

contained in this list are hundreds of book spanning 3 centuries, including legal documents, minutes from parliament, novels, every kind of book you can imagine, who ALL spell it dilemna. A similar search for 'dilemma' returns nothing anywhere near as old, and therefore I'd say 'dilemma' is the modern bastardisation of the word.

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22dilemna%22&tbs=bks%3A1%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1800%2Ccd_max%3A1820&lr=lang_en#q=%22dilemna%22&hl=en&lr=lang_en&sa=X&ei=SovkT-XlDceY1AW__IyDCQ&ved=0CDoQpwUoBA&source=lnt&tbs=lr:lang_1en%2Ccdr%3A1%2Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1800%2Ccd_max%3A22%2F06%2F2012&tbm=bks&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.,cf.osb&fp=79d929d01242063e&biw=1280&bih=853&safe=active

"Dilemma" comes from Greek. "Di" means "two or twice," and "lemma" means "assumption or premise." A dilemma is a choice between two undesirable options.

"Dilemma" comes from Greek. "Di" means "two or twice," and "lemma" means "assumption or premise." A dilemma is a choice between two undesirable options.
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the link above already rips that apart - latin and greek are often changed when words are westernised.

not that it really matters, and i'm off home anyway

have fun all

contained in this list are hundreds of book spanning 3 centuries, including legal documents, minutes from parliament, novels, every kind of book you can imagine, who ALL spell it dilemna. A similar search for 'dilemma' returns nothing anywhere near as old, and therefore I'd say 'dilemma' is the modern bastardisation of the word.
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that is how language develops though.

the english language always has been a basstardisation of other languages - celtic, german, nordic, dutch etc.

if it is the case that there is a historically accepted spelling of the word, that does not mean that it is the accepted form of the word in the modern language.

not that it really matters, and i'm off home anyway
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bye.

Dilemma is right. Dilemna also appears to be right but dilemma is used by most people. It's like people who call football soccer then people who call it football b'tch about it. No. Both are right, just used by different people.

that was a truly awful article. essentially the author tries to convince readers that all of the dictionaries are wwrong and she is right. it looks like a very american article to me.

the following statement shows how deluded this writer is,

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But it's in the dictionaries for goodness sake, surely that proves the double mm is correct! No no no, dictionaries just reflect current spelling trends, it's not the other way round! Many modern dictionaries are being updated nowadays with Americanised spellings of common place words... again, yikes!

How about the argument that it's just a recent change affecting those taught from the 1960s onwards? No, the Dilemna spelling appears in very old text as well, which means that if it was a mistake then the n 'mistake' has been perpetuated for centuries and no one has noticed!
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this section also demonstrates how she/he has failed to grasp the concept that language is constantyl evolving. if it wasn't we'd still be talking like chaucer ! the fact that we arent, doesnt mean that weve got it wrong.

Dilemma is right. Dilemna also appears to be right but dilemma is used by most people.
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i would agree with that. it appears that both forms are acceptable, although the fact that dilemma is used in dictionaries indicates that this is the accepted modern usage of the word.

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