dictionnary

English

Etymology

As a mistake of second-language speakers, primarily from French dictionnaire.

Noun

dictionnary (plural dictionnaries)

  1. Obsolete spelling of dictionary, now parsed as (non-native speakers' English) a misspelling of dictionary.
    • 1999 July 23, jean lastennet, “breton music”, in soc.culture.breton‎[1] (Usenet), retrieved 4 June 2022:
      I have no modern dictionnary on hand. But I used to understand ethnocide as the volontary destruction of a culture.
    • 2002 May 16, Alexandre Fayolle, “sorted list vs dictionnary”, in comp.lang.python‎[2] (Usenet), retrieved 4 June 2022:
      I'd expect the first one to be faster, since the lookup of a key in a dictionnary is O(1), and insertion is a dictionnary is roughly O(1) too, whereas bisect_left is O(log(N)), and inserting in the middle of a list is O(N).
    • 2003 February 11, BATTISTELLI Laurent, “dictionnary”, in adobe.indesign.windows‎[3] (Usenet), retrieved 4 June 2022:
      So I export my dictionnary from my "old" application and I obtain them in a format *.LEX that is recognized on my computer like an "Indesign Dictionnary File"
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