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From: lilandbr@scn.org (Leland Bryant Ross)
Subject: Re: Schism (was Re: margarine)
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Date: Tue, 1 Oct 1996 03:29:14 GMT
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If, as <rte@elmo.lz.att.com> (Ralph T. Edwards) says:

>/S/ is off the wall. [as the initial element in "schism"]

how about "schedule", where Americans almost always say /sk/ and most 
British speakers (in my experience) say /S/.  Does anybody use /s/?  
What's *historically* correct *here*?

And why *does* ME have that -c- in "scisme"?

And do any native English-speakers use anything other than /sk/ in 
"school" or "scheme"?  If *not*, why haven't |sk| spellings taken over 
(or at least become as popular as "nite", "tho", or "thru")?


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