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Originally Posted by Sparrow
It's tricky - but the ultimate authority, in my view, is what people actually use - it's their language, and no-one has the right to restrict their use of it.
Dictionaries record usage, they don't regulate it.
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Chambers does list common miss-spellings (as in this case) and tell you that they are wrong. Of course, anyone is free to spell any word in any way that they wish - there is no "punishment" for doing so, other than the scorn of the reader at the writer's poor grasp of the language
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