Posted by Mike Field on October 28, 2004 at 12:14:19 from 203.166.84.254 user mikefield.
In Reply to: Re: despatch or dispatch posted by Allan_Lang on October 28, 2004 at 03:36:17:
My Red Fox edition has it exactly the way Ed cites. But elsewhere (at least five times, but without my doing an exhaustive search) it seems to appear only as "dispatch."
I'm inclined to think Allan's got the right of it, though. (And for what it's worth, I myself use "despatch" pretty-well exclusively.)