basically, imagine a rugby scrum
Dr Peter Lennox

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Faculty of Arts, Design and Technology
University of Derby, UK
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From: [email protected] [[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Paul Hodges [[email protected]]
Sent: 12 October 2012 23:36
To: Surround Sound discussion group
Subject: Re: [Sursound] [ot] new and interesting words

--On 12 October 2012 20:49 +0300 Sampo Syreeni <[email protected]> wrote:

> Melee (no accents in English)

This remark surprised me, so I checked.  Chambers Dictionary gives only the
fully accented spelling, mêlée; Shorter Oxford gives mêlée first, but
melée and melee as alternatives; Wikipedia gives melee as the title, but
says that mêlée is frequently used in English; the "Oxford Dictionary of
English" gives only melee.

So, any spelling is acceptable in English, it seems, which is in keeping
with the nature of the language.

Paul

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Paul Hodges


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