This Cantankerous Scot Rebels Again
Mood: Snorting
Listening to: Nothing
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I have been looking on-line at the spellings supersede and supercede. There are a lot of claims that supercede is incorrect, whereas the Oxford English Dictionary (unless this information is out of date) claims that supercede is valid and disputed rather than incorrect.
'Disputed' it could well be, because so many spell it that way - and not without reason.
A comment on this site says that the Scots used superceid.
I do have a preference for supercede - but that's probably because I'm a cantankerous Scot who was brought up to spell it that way.
Just as I dialled up to check a few sites on the subject, thinking 'dictionaries, dictionaries' to myself, my eye was caught by my daily horoscope. It said:
The dictionary may define an obstacle as 'a person or thing that obstructs progress,' but today any obstacles you face will have quite the opposite effect. When someone tells you 'no' today, all you'll hear is a challenge to change this person's mind. You are up to the task, and you're eager to make all obstacles disappear.
Good. It's supercede. Diddums has spoken.
