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If you can't spell it...
- Russell Crowe on Twitter, June 9, 2011 quoted
in the Daily Mail, June 19, 2011
"Circumcise" is derived from the Latin words meaning "cut
around". It is nothing to do with sizing, nor with the "-ize"
that means "to cause to become". The spelling with "-cis-" is as
mandatory as in "incised", "incisive" and "incision", "decisive"
and "decision", "concise", "precise" etc.
It might seem picky to pillory people who misspell
"circumcise", but when someone says they've "done their
research" without having picked up the spelling, something is
wrong, as Russell Crowe pointed out.
For example:
Those (-ciz- and -siz-) are the commonest.
Hereafter, alphabetical (disregarding "un-"):
ce-
- "autocorrected" to insert four
typos....
#10
cic-
"Bloodstained
Men is an anti-circucision activist
group. Brother K wants ... to encourage laws
to be put in place to stop circucision."
- Brianna
Cook, WGXA, September 30, 2022, 0:44
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circum-
circumci-
circumcis-
(The only correct spellings, circumcise, circumcised,
circumcising, circumcision, go here.)
- Hayim Leiter, "The New Yorker's
Botched Circumcision article", Times of Israel,
October 7, 2021
#40
circumcu-
#50
circume-
#70
circumsiz- has
already been noted, but this example - the J. Paul
Getty Museum catalogue's entry for Robert
Mapplethorpe's famous photo, "Man in a Polyester
Suit" - is astonishing (and unnecessary).
circumst-
And
of course...
#80
circun-
circy
(Strictly speaking not a
misspelling, an odious euphemism, but
"un-circy" is unusual)
cirm-
#90
cirum-
cirx-
cis-
#100
co-
cu-
#110
s-
(With 3 consonants and 2 vowels
changed, is this a record?)
si-
#120
su-
vi-
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