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Alternate spellings

There are two commonly used spellings, one with a single 's', the other with a double 's'. Some approximate numbers:

Data source "s" "ss"
Google Scholar search 249 419
Google Books search 4,660 7,220
Google NGrams ratio 1860-1925 1 10
Google NGrams ratio 1925-1950 1 2-4
Google NGrams ratio 1950-2019 1 1.2-1.7
Google Search 46,100 209,000

I plan to move the article to the "ss" spelling, and maybe correct some of the references. -- R. S. Shaw ( talk) 20:48, 30 October 2023 (UTC) reply