the word is "SKEPTIC" not "SCEPTIC", page 2

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reply posted on 14-7-2008 @ 11:49 PM by masqua

There is no doubt whatsoever that Simon Gray started this website.

The facts, though, are that the preponderance of members/visitors are Americans.

I say let both skeptic and sceptic suffice, depending on the location of the poster.

As a Dutch-born Canadian myself, I can't decide which is the correct form.

sceptisch, Skeptic or sceptic?

just kidding, y'all.

reply posted on 14-7-2008 @ 11:55 PM by ANOK

reply to post by masqua

Well obviously. There are thousands more Americans with computers who have time to waste on silly nonsense.

But again don't take me too seriously on this pretty stupid thread.

I'm English, I was taught in school and grew up spelling it sceptic. Why should I change it to lower myself to the American bastardiSed version of MY language because there's more of you slobs than us?

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 12:26 AM by VIKINGANT

You say tomato I say tomato....

Doesn't seem to have quite the same impact in writing...Don't mind me...

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 12:38 AM by masqua

Originally posted by ANOK
Why should I change it to lower myself to the American bastardiSed version of MY language because there's more of you slobs than us?

I suppose you missed the part where I said I was Dutch-born and emigrated to Canada.

BTW... it's not YOUR language... it belongs to the Germanic tribes who invaded and over-ran a fair-siZed chunk of the Isles and drove those wild poetic and Gaelic-tongued people into Ireland and Scotland.

Och... how soon they forget. Schaam!

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 01:13 AM by destiny-fate

Well I prefer diplomacy - lol So I use both C and K to spell the word Sk/ceptic - but I honestly do not understand how anyone could confuse the word Sceptic with Septic ??? The C is not silent in Sceptic ???? ‘C’ often sounds like “K” ie Do we say "School" or do we say “ Shool “
This Link might help

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 01:21 AM by Essan

Originally posted by masqua
reply to post by ANOK

If it's truly British and NOT English, then why isn't the language here Gaelic?

Actually, if it's British then it ought to all be in Welsh (P Celtic)

In which case, we should be spelling the word sgeptig

(or possibly using the older Welsh word amheuwr which means the same thing.

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 01:24 AM by Anonymous ATS

This is SpeakerofTruth, like I said, language is an odd thing. I have noticed that some people spell certain words one way, and I spell them another.

For example, some spell the word gray as "grey." To me, "grey" is a misspelling of the word.

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 01:39 AM by flice

reply to post by Fathom

Please please please shut up...

www.thefreedictionary.com...

After having said that, once America can pinpoint a 3rd world country corretly on a map, once they don't think that Denmark is the capital in Sweden, then we can start caring about your freaking grammar in a language which by the way is NOT the most spoken language in the world, but actually only no. 3, succeeded by Chinese and Spanish.

Non-best regards from a Dane in London, I have zero respect for spell-plates.

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 02:14 AM by ANOK

reply to post by masqua

Yeah so you keep saying. The modern English language is Germanic based but was still unique to England. The English language takes words from Scandinavian languages, French, Celts, Greek, Hindi, Latin and a few others, but the spelling was again unique to the Englisc (now English) language.

The modern version of English came about in the 16th century and at that time one of the most important contributions to MY language was the word sCeptic and it's correct spelling with a C.

But the most dominant part of my language that has survived is Anglo Saxon of old English (which they borrowed the alphabet from the Britons who used Latin, as they didn't read or write and had no alphabet of their own, and thus we use the Latin alphabet). What we kept from the Germanic was not spelling but the use of verbs, and the use of past and present tenses, as well as other forms of grammar. Oh and the use of the word sCeptic...

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 02:23 AM by ANOK

Originally posted by Essan
Actually, if it's British then it ought to all be in Welsh (P Celtic)

Actually the Britons spoke Latin, if that is what you are both referring to?

And sCeptic is actually a Latin word, so once again it's the correct spelling...

And yes it's a hard C that sounds like a K, which seems to be how the Americans came up with their spelling, from the way they think it sounded.

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 02:53 AM by Halicarnassus

I thought Sceptic was a wrong spelling from careless people, now I know better.

Now tell me, is "grammer" instead or "grammar" a correct word? That one does look moronic.

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 03:07 AM by Marshall Ormus

reply to post by Halicarnassus

Grammar is the correct spelling, Grammer is the common misspelling of Grammar.

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 03:12 AM by VIKINGANT

Any which way you look at it the english language is all messed up.
Look at th word GHOTI
Who can tell me what this means and its correct spelling?

reply posted on 15-7-2008 @ 03:31 AM by Gemwolf

Well, to be completely technical about it, it is in fact originally spelled with a K. Seeing that the word comes from the Greek word meaning "skeptikos" which translates to "look about, consider, observe". It was thus the English that bastardiSed the word to sceptic, and then the Americans bastardiZed it further (back?) to Skeptic. (It should be "skeptik" if you really want to be a purist.)

The word sceptic comes from the Greek word skepsis meaning "enquiry". In the context of ancient Greek philosophy it was used to describe someone who sought knowledge but failed to find it. Thus it describes someone engaged on an enterprise, the search for knowledge, rather than a body of doctrine, and begins in this rather limited sense as a practical concept.
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As for skeptic (sceptic in British English), the Skeptics were also a group of Greek philosophers, their leader being Pyrrho of Elis. The word skeptic comes from Greek skeptikos "look about, consider, observe". It is descended from the base *skep-, which was related to *skop-, source of English scope, and *skep- may be a reversed version of *spek-, from which English gets spectator, speculate, etc. Greek skeptikos was applied to Pyrrho's school of philosophy, which stressed the importance of careful scrutiny of any proposition, using doubt, before accepting that proposition. The word entered English in the 16th century, via Latin scepticus and French sceptique, with a wider meaning of "initial doubt".
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