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Originally Posted by egg&chips
My wife just asked me how to spell dilemma. I told her I spelled it dilemma, but that I remember spelling the word as dilemna when I was at school, as did she. I thought that my memory must have been playing tricks on me, but now I find that there's this global (albeit in isolated pockets) debate about how you spell the damn word. 
Educated at AGS (wife at AGHS) so thought I should have been taught correctly but now who knows? Anybody else spell it -mna like I used to, or are you a lifelong -mma speller? |
Never heard of dilemna, but if the word comes from di + lemma, which it appears to, then the -n- spelling appears to be misguided but common.
As far as I can see the following website advocates dilemna without saying where that spelling arose except that it the original one for the derivation from di + lemma - but why? or am I reading it wrong?
Dilemna or Dilemma