[PW] Re: British vs. American spelling of "receipt"

[Lois Fundis]

It appears to be "receipt" in all the versions of
English I can find dictionaries for. And since our
library currently has a trial version of the Oxford
Reference Online Premium Collection this includes
British, Canadian, and Australian versions of Oxford
dictionaries (though, alas, not the OED proper) as
well as in the usual American suspects I normally
refer to, such as the American Heritage Dictionary at
Bartleby.com and the Merriam-Webster online.

It is "receipt" for receiving something, for the slip
acknowledging the purchase of something, and -- marked
"archaic" by all the dictionaries to which I have
referred (see first paragraph)-- in the sense of
"recipe", i.e. the instructions for preparing
something, such as food. (At least one source refers
to "receipt" in the sense of "recipe" as a Victorian
usage, which jibes with my experience as a reader. It
may still be a dialect usage in some places, but if so
it's not around here.)


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