Timeline for Origin and spelling of (multi)collinear/colinear
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| Dec 31, 2017 at 18:17 | vote | accept | Frans Rodenburg | ||
| Dec 21, 2017 at 13:31 | history | edited | Scortchi♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added note on other senses.
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| Dec 21, 2017 at 12:51 | history | edited | Scortchi♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
A bit of research
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| Dec 19, 2017 at 16:26 | history | edited | Scortchi♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added footnote on *complanar*
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| Dec 18, 2017 at 22:45 | comment | added | Carl | Let us continue this discussion in chat. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 22:03 | comment | added | Scortchi♦ | @Carl: According to the site you've linked to, in the U.S. collinear is pronounced /kəˈlinēər/ or /kəˈlɪniər/, & colinear is pronounced /ˌkōˈlinēər/, as per my answer. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 15:52 | comment | added | Carl | Generally, the /l/ is doubled for both American and British orthography when the emphasis is on the second syllable, where apparently the US English is an exception for the spelling /colinear/. Note, however, that US pronunciation is colinear/ˌkōˈlinēər/, whereas British is collinear/kəˈlɪnɪə/. That is, in US English there is more of an emphasis (the /,/) on the /co/ than in England. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 15:44 | history | edited | Scortchi♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
Added notes on pronunciation.
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| Dec 18, 2017 at 15:32 | comment | added | Scortchi♦ | @Carl: Which spelling is an exception to which rule? I'm afraid I've lost track of what your point is: mine's just that the spelling collinear & pronunciation "co-LIN-ear" have the same explanation as the spelling collaborate & pronunciation "co-LAB-orate"; & that it's a quite separate one from that of the double l in modelling. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 15:05 | comment | added | Carl | OK, I concede the emphasis for the pronunciation of collinear is (weakly) on the second syllable. All that does is make the spelling an exception to the rule, it does not change the spelling. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 14:56 | comment | added | Scortchi♦ | @Carl: You're misreading IPA there: the mark precedes the stressed syllable. When is schwa ever stressed anyway? | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 14:19 | comment | added | Scortchi♦ | @Carl: That begs the question of where the stress should go. I write collinear & put the stress on the 2nd syllable when I say it, as does everyone else I know (who has occasion to use the word); but I imagine people who write colinear put at least a secondary stress on the 1st syllable when they say it. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 13:57 | comment | added | Carl | American double "l" usage agrees with British on words that have the stress on the second syllable. Please read through the spelling link provided. | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 13:27 | comment | added | Scortchi♦ | @Carl: I'm not contesting that - I just don't see what colinear vs collinear has got to do with the different rules for doubling or not doubling a final l when you add a suffix. It's not as if Americans write colaborate, colapse, colateral, colect, colide, coloquial, colude, ... | |
| Dec 18, 2017 at 12:52 | comment | added | Carl | I listed the Oxford dictionary spellings as references that explicitly ascribe colinear as the US English spelling but also permits collinear as the spelling as well as the British reference to collinear that only admits one favored spelling. | |
| Dec 17, 2017 at 18:13 | history | edited | Scortchi♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
added 50 characters in body
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| Dec 17, 2017 at 18:03 | history | answered | Scortchi♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |