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This is unrelated, but I just had to look up "daring" vs "derring" and unearthed a factoid others may enjoy.

Apparently the technically correct spelling is "derring" because of a 16th century misprint.

Perhaps being technically correct is not the "best kind of correct" this time.



No drama, FWiW I'm familiar with the history of the phrase from Middle English, through Chaucer, Spenser, and Walter Scott .. and I'd suggest "misprint in the 16th Century" is a bit simplistic as language in that region in those times had an exuberance of spellynges until Samuel Johnson took a stab at nailing jelly to the wall.

I toss a mental coin any time I come to type such a phrase and note that we still translate the progenitor "dorryng do" as 'daring to do' and have derring-do littered throughout every volume of Ripping Yarns so it seems passable to spilt the difference. :-)




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