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Is this "regional American English"? I've never seen renaissance written as "renascence" in the midwest, northeast, or California.
by bas 14y ago
Is this "regional American English"? I've never seen renaissance written as "renascence" in the midwest, northeast, or California.
- randallsquared 14y agoGrowing up in the US in the '70s and '80s, I'd never seen it this way, either, and a little googling shows that it's a very obscure variant, with fewer than 60K uses, compared to renaissance with over 13M uses. I think someone saw it mentioned as an American variant and became confused into thinking that it was a common American variant.
- mrsebastian 14y agoHrm, interesting. Maybe I can go back to using the proper version, then!