just because an entire nation is spelling it incorrectly, or even 50% of another nation, or even if every last moron in the world was spelling it incorrectly, does not make it correct.
the evidence is in the etymology.
1+1=2, no matter how many ppl say its 3
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Ooooh, buddy. You have no one to blame but yourself for this can of worms.
Skeptical is 100% just as correct to use as sceptical. As a matter of fact, wouldn't you know it, even my auto-correct wants me to use skeptical. If you google "sceptical" what pops up first? Skeptical. With a tiny little footnote showing that it could also be spelled sceptical. OH, and that's through Google UK. Which just happens to be the *only* country that sceptical is even close to having a majority use in. At a 50/50 split.
The spelling of skeptic is, historically, more accurate than sceptic regardless of your personal opinion, because it actually isn't derived from sceptique. That's a huge misconception. Sceptic is derived from from the French word sceptique. Skeptic is derived from the Latin word skepsis. Latin is, by far, the older language, which many other languages are derived from. Including French. The evidence, as you say, is in the etymology. You did, you know, research the etymology, right?
Hate to break it to you, but it's not just the United States that uses skeptic. A solid majority of worldwide English speakers use skeptic. There is not a single country, in the whole world, that uses sceptic more than skeptic. Not a single one. So, when you say "obscure regional dialect specific to only one place on earth, such as America", I don't know what the crap you're talking about.
I did my research. And here are some numbers for you.
US - 92% skeptical
UK- 50/50
India - 68% skeptical
Philippines - 92% skeptical
Canada - 83% skeptical
Australia - 56% skeptical
Ireland 51% skeptical.
New Zealand 61% skeptical
Jamaica 72% skeptical
Trinidad 59% skeptical
firstly, your fallacy of false equivalence is invalid, because of the strong inversely proportional relationship between the education level of a country, and the use of then incorrect spelling.
Eg: americans = extremely low education rates, extremely high incorrect spelling rates for the word, whereas Switzerland with its highest objective educational outcomes per capita exclusively uses the correct spelling with a C. alkso note that america has not only been in military and/or political possession of half countries with the highest incorrect spelling rates, such as the Philippines, Jamacia, Trinidad and canada for almost a century now, polluting not only their language and education systems but also their culture, morals, spelling bees and gene pool.
fact is, language has logical structure and a very finely tuned system of rules and styles (no, 'style' does not refer to 'fashion', you're wrong again), and even if 100% of dumbarses were spelling it with a K, they'd still be wrong.
your argument is akin to saying something as stupid as "99% of ppl think that 1+1=3, therefore now, 1+1=3".
language is not a democracy
Ok then, if you're so dead-set against accepting that we were both wrong at the beginning of this conversation, then let's break it down to basic English pronunciation.
Provide evidence of other words pronouncing the "C" when followed directly by the letter "E". Now compare the number of other words in the English language where "CE" appears where the combination of letters is pronounced as "SE" or simply "S", such as in the words "license", "acceptable", or "evidence".
Go ahead, I'll wait while you do your research and provide some rudimentary numbers. I don't expect a breakdown of every single word that has the "CE" combination in them, as there is a rather large number of them.
Oh, and your false equivalence argument is, in itself, a false equivalence. Language is a much more adaptable form of communication than mathematics. Language can very easily change over time, whereas mathematics is much more concrete. It is extremely easy to provide solid evidence that "1+1=2". On the contrary, the spelling of a single word in spoken language is much more open to individual interpretation, as evidenced here.
I personally have no problems admitting that I'm wrong when someone points it out to me. Hell, if anything I tend to thank those that point it out to me, as it means that I learned something new and can generally provide more accurate information in the future.
EDIT: Corrected a few grammatical errors, as well as a few issues with punctuation.
If you refuse to even have an informed and intelligent debate, then I see no point in continuing this conversation any further. Your one word ignorant response has proven your own intelligence as being below standard, and I refuse to have a battle of the wits with an unarmed person. Have a good day, and I wish you well flipping burgers for a living.