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I had to google the definition of "stymy".

• fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago
  I've always seen it spelled stymie, was pretty surprised that stymy is legit and apparently is the American English way of spelling it.
  • bruckie 1y ago
    As an American, I've never seen that spelling, and I can't find much evidence that it's an accepted spelling. I'm curious how you came to that conclusion. "Stymy" doesn't appear in Merriam-Webster [0] nor the OED [1]. Wiktionary [2] and Dictionary.com [3] do list it as "variant" or "alternative" spellings, but with no indication that it's an American spelling. [0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stymy https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/stymy [1] https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?q=stymy https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?q=stymy [2] https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stymy https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/stymy [3] https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stymy https://www.dictionary.com/browse/stymy
    • fkyoureadthedoc 1y ago
      Reading through the list of Google web search results, collinsdictionary.com said it was American English. I should have put my faith in chatgpt instead of google search.