7.05.2007
You say commingle. I say co-mingle.
Does it bother anyone else that commingle is spelled with two 'm's? Dictionary.com says that the prefix is 'com' meaning 'jointly, together, with.' So it must be right... but it still bothers me. But I digress, and regardless of how it's spelled, a trustee has a duty not to do it.
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I spell it with 3 m's. Sometimes 4.
That's hilarious! A friend and I were discussing the same thing. I said, "if you look at 'commingle' too long it starts to look weird" and she replied "wait... I think it has too many 'm's" So we WEREN'T going insane... good to know!
with my handwriting I doubt they'd be able to tell if it was an M and M, five N's or an M and a N!
Yes, this very issue bugs the crap out of me. In fact, I found your web page by doing a search of the following (quotes included):
"co-mingle" "commingle"
I say "co-mingle", and I think the usage of "commingle" encourages sloppiness elsewhere in the language. For example, "co-locate" and "collocate" do not mean the same thing, yet people frequently and erroneously use the latter when they mean the former.
Oh, this is interesting -- more on what my search turned up:
Google Books: The Big Book of Beastly Mispronunciations ("commingle" entry)
From there I launched into "chaise longue" vs "chaise lounge", "conservatism" vs "conservativism" and "minuscule" vs "miniscule".
A good case is actually made for "commingle".
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