A fight in which two words are set against each other to see which shows up with more hits in Google searches. Google Fight is a site that can be used to compare frequency of use for any two words.
Oncet upon a time nearly all (all?) dictionaries treated supercede as a misspelling of supersede. Things change. Now some descriptive dictionaries accept the spelling with a c as an alternative spelling -- that is, as an acceptable spelling. Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary has included a separate entry for supercede for some 25 years now, but it still mentions that the spelling is "widely regarded as an error." The variant spelling, according to M-W, has been around since the 17th century.
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Is it possible that google fights will be used some day to determine when a variant spelling of a word should be given a separate entry in a dictionary?
Supersede currently gets 9,720,000 ghits while supercede gets 1,840,000 -- the latter being a substantial number for what is still considered a misspelling. I wish there were data from 10 years ago for comparison.
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