--On 12 October 2012 20:49 +0300 Sampo Syreeni <de...@iki.fi> wrote:

Melee (no accents in English)

This remark surprised me, so I checked. Chambers Dictionary gives only the fully accented spelling, mêlée; Shorter Oxford gives mêlée first, but melée and melee as alternatives; Wikipedia gives melee as the title, but says that mêlée is frequently used in English; the "Oxford Dictionary of English" gives only melee.

So, any spelling is acceptable in English, it seems, which is in keeping with the nature of the language.

Paul

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Paul Hodges


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