On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 4:59 PM, Kerim Aydin <ke...@u.washington.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, Kerim Aydin wrote: >> On Tue, 17 Jul 2012, moonroof wrote: >> > Cipher? >> announcement, publish a Cypher for the classified parameter in > > I'd like to say that the 'y' was a clever agoran pun and not idiocy > coupled with an overly-permissive spellchecker, but you know, I just > can't...
Wiktionary calls the spelling "cypher" an "alternative spelling"; the OED gives the entry as "cipher | cypher, n.", which I assume means it considers both spellings equally valid; and the etymology according to the OED (not Harper's) seems to indicate there's no clear reason to use one spelling over the other. I think "Cypher" suits Agora better. —Machiavelli
