Log in Sign Up. And who put it there, anyway? Facebook Twitter. Featuring: Peter Sokolowski. Editor Peter Sokolowski explains how the spelling of indict was changed to reflect its Latin roots. Up Next Autoplay Toggle track. All Right , views. Snuck 54, views. Farther 44, views. Lie , views.
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The awkward case of 'his or her'. Are there other words that combine ict to make an ite sound? I can think of others that are, instead, pronounced as they are spelled eg. It has various compounds, too: anapodeictic, endeictic, epideictic. It used to be endite or indite. And in fact indite still exists but now with a somewhat different meaning. Regarding indict , though, the OED2 writes that there seems to have been some confusion along the way:. But the OFr.
A corresponding med. See also indite v. The sense of endite , indict , may have arisen from L. The pronunciation never changed. There used to be. Interdict used to be pronounced interdite , but too many people were ignorant and didn't know the correct pronunciation, and started using the spelling pronunciation or maybe they just assumed it came from Latin, and used the Latin pronunciation and spelling , so now we pronounce it interdict.
It originally came from the French word entredit , so there is no etymological reason that we should pronounce the 'c'. Like indict , we added the 'c' to the spelling based on the Latin roots. Middle English entredit, Middle English enterdite.
Middle English interdite. Middle English interdicte,. The pronunciation change seems to have happened a long time ago. Shakespeare wrote in The Phoenix and the Turtle.
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