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Is connexion synonymous with connection? Can I use it, for example, in an ethernet connexion?
5 This question, Google Ngrams, Wikipedia, and several dictionaries all say that connexion is an alternate, obsolete spelling of connection. I am reading a several-hundred page treatise (Milton S. Terry, 1890, Biblical Hermeneutics), wherein the author uses both forms, favoring connexion considerably.
The spelling reflection is now much commoner than reflexion in all uses, probably largely as a result of association with reflect v.; compare also flexion n., connection n., etc. N.E.D. (1905 ) notes that the spelling reflexion was then ‘still common in scientific use, perhaps through its connexion with reflex’.
0 It's interesting that whilst in the UK, 'connexion' ceased to be acceptable in the later half of the twentieth century ( The Times Newspaper used the word until the early nineteen seventies ) the use of 'inflexion' has resisted the inevitable tide of change. Albeit i accept that 'inflection' is now the usual spelling.
When did connexion supersede connection in British English? Answer: Around 1820. But it only did so for around 30 years, up through around 1850. Ngram colored vs coloured Since this one seems to be everybody’s favorite peeve, when did colored supersede coloured in American English? Answer: Around 1840. Ngram leveled vs levelled
la connexion française The verb, 'to shellac', in all its senses, derives from the noun 'shellac', which itself translates French laque en écailles, "lac in thin plates".
To your remarks on the spirit of clanship in Ireland, I answer in the words of an old tenant, who claims a sort of left-handed connexion in generations long since gone by; and the other day enforced his plea for unusual favour, by “Sure and isn’t blood thicker than water, your Honour?”