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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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five-cent piece or three-cent non-silver piece
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Neither........in my world it's V, Shield, Buffalo, Jefferson etc.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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For the coin and the metal, nickel is the only answer. Nickle is an old north midlands dialect way of saying "nick-hole" referring to the woodpecker, which is more recently referred to as a nicker in that dialect.
Nickle is also a 19th and occasional early 20th century variation on nickel, not often seen.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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I think it should be spelled S-I-L-V-E-R.
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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OK, I need to get this off my chest...you can use a loupe to view your coin, viewing it through a loop probably won't help.
There is a die break, not brake. Those two really bother me for some reason.
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Bedrock of the Community
Canada
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Because I don't always trust the Internet as a reliable source I decided to check all three of my dictionaries. Each of them (2006, 1954 and 1938) have nickel as a word, but not nickle. Even my thesaurus only has nickel under alternate words for money, and not nickle.
So in conclusion, it is most definitely nickel.
Edited by Joseph7420
07/12/2015 11:56 pm
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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Steel vs still
When I lived in Pittsburgh it was pronounced the latter (not ladder).
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Pillar of the Community
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Have never seen it spelled "nickle.
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Pillar of the Community
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I also ran to my beloved Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary, whom I defer to as the ultimate trustworthy source. I knew that the old lady would definitively rule in favor of nickel, because the other is simply a mistake. I would then gleefully share this delightful erudition, while engaging to suppress (perhaps unsuccessfully) rightfully endowed feelings of superiority.
The online version is one thing, but I knew that it was fraught with potential error and prejudice. Heck, for all we know the North Koreans are hacking away at it right now, trying to upend our world by changing what's acceptable, spelling-wise.
My paper and linen-bound volume (c. 1998) does indeed list nickel as the correct spelling, but I was blown away when she gave nickle as an acceptable variant.
Zounds! My haughty world has just come crashing down on my doughy face. Next thing you know they'll be saying that "dime" is an accepted variation of "disme"!
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07/13/2015 1:38 pm
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Pillar of the Community
Canada
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I have only seen it spelled "nickel" (the same spelling as the metal). The first time I saw it being spelled "nickle" is in this forum. I just looked up on the English dictionaries at home, Cambridge, Oxford, Longman, none of them has it spelled "nickle". Even my computer keeps autocorrecting it.
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Pillar of the Community
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nickel as the correct spelling, but I was blown away when she also gave nickel as an acceptable variant.  |
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Pillar of the Community
United States
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As for me I thought it was either transposed mental misspellings or those crazy Canucks!
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07/13/2015 11:18 am
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Spend more time on the internet, you'll see it everywhere. There is plenty wrong on the internet and plenty of people who believe it without doing any amount of fact checking.  |
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