I actually looked it up before making this post, because any time someone uses either version of the word, this comes up in the comments. Apparently both “sike” and “psych” are considered correct, although it seems like “sike” is more commonly used, so I went with that one.
It’s not reallya misspelling. It’s an alternate spelling for a different form of the word. A word that started colloquially. Either way, several words have multiple accepted spellings even outside of regional stuff like color/colour. Pallet and palette are two normal spellings of that word with different main meanings but nigh equivalent over-all meanings, for example. I know I’ve ran in to many more, but the brain’s still starting up…
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pal·let1
noun
a straw mattress.
a crude or makeshift bed.
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Similar-sounding words
pallet is sometimes confused with palette
Bone apple tea!
I actually looked it up before making this post, because any time someone uses either version of the word, this comes up in the comments. Apparently both “sike” and “psych” are considered correct, although it seems like “sike” is more commonly used, so I went with that one.
Psych makes more sense from an etymology perspective, but more people seem to use sike.
Not surprised that most people are of average intelligence or lower
That’s not what average means
It is however how the human distribution is. There’s no upper limit on intelligence but there is a lower one.
Median is an average.
I hate it when the misspelling has such a large uptake.
It’s not reallya misspelling. It’s an alternate spelling for a different form of the word. A word that started colloquially. Either way, several words have multiple accepted spellings even outside of regional stuff like color/colour. Pallet and palette are two normal spellings of that word with different main meanings but nigh equivalent over-all meanings, for example. I know I’ve ran in to many more, but the brain’s still starting up…
Pallet and palette are homophones, but the different words have distinctly different meanings.
The problem is the pervasive proliferation of improper phrasing
Wrong. Look up the definitions. They literally reference each other as same.
Nope.