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To: Sdgla who wrote (132214)	3/17/2017 3:25:21 PM
From: SuperChief	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217767

Thank you as I have never been called an artist of any kind until now. Speaking of Truth, I notice you used the non-existent word Vacumn. Googled it and found a recent discussion on its use. One day way back when, I typed vacumn into the computer and was corrected. Thinking it was just a discrepancy between UK and US English, I searched the word. It was always vacuum - which looks weird to me. I brushed it off, figured that I'd been spelling it wrong my whole life for some strange reason and forgot about it, adopting the new spelling. Then I saw dilemma/dilemna on here so I went back to see if vacumn was just me or if others had the same issue. Sure enough, there are people in English language forums questioning the word and it is misspelt all over the web. The thing that gets me is that there isn't a subtle n sound (is there?) so there seems to be no reason for the n at the end. Therefore, so why do so many get the word wrong? Maybe there's a reason, maybe it WAS once spelt vacumn but I didn't look to much into it because the dictionaries I checked say there is no such word. I enjoy View from the Center and Left. We are busily plotting against the Great Pumpkin Head and his Minions. Keep fluttering about the flames.:-)