Posted by Ed Kiser on December 15, 2003 at 00:25:27 from 152.163.252.196 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: BAIL or BALE? posted by Robert Hill on December 14, 2003 at 19:33:22:
I compared the same passage in a Macmillan and Co. 1943 edition of PM with a Red Fox edition and a Godine edition with reference to the spelling of gybe or jibe. The earlier Macmillan had JIBE; the other two which are much later have GYBE.
Maybe it is a spelling standard of different publishers.
Maybe rules of spelling change over time.
And we wonder why peoples of other cultures find learning English, especially its spelling, to be rather difficult.
Ed Kiser, South Florida