OK, I know I'm late but this one bugs me—
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Originally Posted by FBI
Is that really how you spell seniority?
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No, it's how you spell ‘seignority’, which is a different word meaning ‘lordship’ or ‘governance’, and comes from the French word
seigneur. (Source: the Massive Old Fat Twelve-Volume Oxford English Dictionary – which, incidentally, gives ‘seigniority’ as the preferred spelling.)
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Originally Posted by Textcritic
It is the traditional spelling.
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The traditional spelling of ‘seniority’ is ‘seniority’. It comes directly from the Latin word
senior, without any intermeddling from the French.
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Originally Posted by transplant99
Seignority is the Textcritic/academia/egghead/smarter than us way.
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Seignority is the ‘would-be pedant who nevertheless still gets tripped up by homophones’ way. Real eggheads say ‘seignorship’ instead, to avoid confusion.
Sorry, Textcritic, you goofed on this one. Even Homer nods.
/crusty-old-scholar
GFG, and V=NG!