Nit Pick: Seccession Vs. Succession

[fernerdave]

I know its kinda trivial but why do so many people confuse the two? or at least secede with a U?

 

[Axeman]

Well to be fair there have been numerous historical situations where one evolved into another or they overlapped as apart of a wider conflict.

However if I had to field a guess it would be that people used it and were never corrected or were just never taught the difference, sort of like anything relating to intellectual mixups of this kind ever.

 

[Tripwire]

Because they're pronounced almost identically and both refer to historical political topics. That's all. Hell, I've accidentally done it myself by just typing quickly without thinking about what I'm spelling.

 

[fernerdave]

Maybe its just me but i say the war of spanish suck-sesh-un, and the
se-sesh-un of the states..

 

[Herzen's love-child]

Maybe its just me but i say the war of spanish suck-sesh-un, and the
se-sesh-un of the states..

For the latter, I say C-sec-tion....
but if I could put a suck into it, I would.

 

[David S Poepoe]

I know its kinda trivial but why do so many people confuse the two? or at least secede with a U?

Boils down to education. Some excuse could be given if english is a second language, but we've had successful successive sessions discussing in the past.

 

[Jasen777]

I don't make the mistake, it's the auto-correct...

 

[fortyseven]

Education fail.

 

[Oracle of Sobek 𓆋]

I suspect that the fact that polities that secede from another are sometimes referred to as its successor states doesn't help matters for people who make the mistake...

There is 1 "c" in "secession", by the way, as long as we're nitpicking.

 

[John Fredrick Parker]

I don't make the mistake, it's the auto-correct...

This may be a big part of the problem here. Anyway, shouldn't this be in one of the Chats?