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I've always seen it spelled stymie, was pretty surprised that stymy is legit and apparently is the American English way of spelling it.
by 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 agoAs 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 agoReading 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.