Joe -

It's not that my spelling is so bad, it's that I've worn out my keyboard, and my typing suffers as a result. With close examination you'll find that in my post above the second "p" in Appallation (the spelling preferred by my Random House dictionary, believe it or not) was actually typed ahead of the first "p", because of the "keyboard stutter" I encounter frequently. That was a typo, not a misspelling.

Things may have changed since my 1911 dictionary came out, but it's on disk so it's handy. LiK says her new Websters drops one of the "l"s, but it doesn't say which one to leave out.

John