It is 12:21 a.m.

In my last blog, I mentioned how I went to check the spelling of dilemna because over recent years spell check has been underlining it, as it just did in this sentence.  Found a page called http://www.dilemna.info.

Fascinating discussion there about how “dilemma” is the correct spelling of “dilemna” but that millions of people, educated people, people with the best English teachers in the world swear they were taught to spell it dilemna, myself included.  We dilemnians recall speaking the silent “n” (di-lem-na) so that we would remember how to spell it correctly.  What’s going on here? What’s worse, apparently no dictionary in existence provides dilemna as a viable spelling of the word.

In addition, we dilemnians cringe a bit at seeing the dilemma double “m”.  It looks weird.  It looks wrong.  It bugs us.

How can so many of us be wrong?  From all over the world?

Well.  www.dilemna.info gives one cool reason: alternate universe and suggests before we laugh such a thing off that we search you tube for some of the discussions of alternate universe and that quantum scientists think it is entirely possible…And would explain why we dilemnians are shocked and somewhat dismayed – our reality in question – that we were sure it was spelled dilemna and don’t remember ever seeing it spelled dilemma until recently and that there is nothing in any dictionary anywhere that spells it “our” way.

It’s now 12:31.  I really should go to bed now but I think I’m going to be up awhile researching alternate universe and see what it’s all about.  Di-lem-na.  I ALWAYS said it out loud to remember how to spell it.  And so did commenters on http://www.dilemna.info.  There must be an explanation.

Stay tuned and if I can possibly understand the alternate universe theories at all I’ll try to share it here.