[Vwoolf] "principle" in place of "principal"

[Sarah M. Hall]

Not helped, of course, by the use of 'intern' meaning trainee.



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> From: Jeremy Hawthorn <jeremy.hawthorn at ntnu.no>
>To: Stuart N. Clarke <stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com>; woolf list <VWOOLF at lists.acs.ohio-state.edu> 
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>And another one. In the last week I have seen "interred" used where "interned" was correct, and vice-versa. Thus people of Japanese descent were interred during WW2, and the body was interned after the funeral.
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>Jeremy H
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>From: vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu [vwoolf-bounces at lists.service.ohio-state.edu] on behalf of Stuart N. Clarke [stuart.n.clarke at btinternet.com]
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>The 2 words are quite different, but I admit that I have to concentrate when typing them to make sure I’ve chosen the right one!  I don’t think they have (yet?) become interchangeable.
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>Unlike “imply” and “infer”: in the Antipodes, even in scientific papers, the words are used interchangeably, although I was surprised to find the use as early as 1931, e.g.:
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>M. H. C., ‘The Scheme of Things’, NZ Evening Post, Vol. CXII, No. 112 (7 November 1931), 9: ‘“Oxbridge” … plainly infers [sic] Oxford’; http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&cl=search&d=EP19311107.2.40.1
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>Stuart 
>From: Sunjoo Lee 
>Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2013 10:38 AM
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>Subject: [Vwoolf] "principle" in place of "principal"
>  Hi, everyone,  
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>I have been a bit bugged by seeing "principle" when the word has to be "principal." 
>I saw that happening in doctoral dissertations and (in a few cases) articles from well-known journals, or even books from good publishers. 
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>And this afternoon, from Heidegger's Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (Indiana UP, 1997), I found: 
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>"Thus the knowledge of beings in general (Metaphysica Generalis) and the knowledge of its principle divisions (Metaphysica Specialis) become a "science established on the basis of mere reason."" (6). 
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>And now I wonder, has "principle" been accepted as an alternate spelling of "principal"? Only I haven't been aware of it? 
>Dictionaries I use don't have such information. Has anyone else wondered about this? 
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>Sunjoo  
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