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In article <1992Jul28.133921.2894@memstvx1.memst.edu> connolly@memstvx1.memst.edu writes:

>What's interesting about dilemna is that it is oddly restricted to
>Canada; no one so far has indicated even a single example from South
>of the border.  I teach German; there's no way I would defend the
>spelling practices of most of my students, much less of other Americans.
>But really, the USA isn't responsible for *all* the illiteracy in the
>world.  We just try to make it *seem* that way by electing the president
>some of us (not I!) did.
>
>--Leo Connolly

I just checked titles in the Library of Congress catalogue and came up
with the following:

1. The dilemna <sic> of Mexico. Blitman, Eli Herman (1965).
(The "<sic>" is in the LC record for this title. The book, it turns
out, was published in Mexico.)
2. The dilemna of Eurocommunism. Labour Party of Great Britain (1980).

There is no way of knowing whether the second book actually has this
spelling or whether the record for it contains an error made by the
cataloguer. That is, short of examining the book. Perhaps someone
out there can tell us whether Blitman is/was a Canadian. (Dict. of
Canadian Biography, anyone?) Then again, what if he was a Mexican and
hired a Canadian to translate the book? Or an American?

Perhaps someone who has access to large bodies of English text
identified by source (on CD-ROM) could search for "dilemna"
and see if it turns up in any documents from elswhere than Canada.
-- 
Roger Greenwald
Greenwald@hf.uib.no (address valid only until 10 August 1992)