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<blockquote data-quote="Marius Delphus" data-source="post: 4194197" data-attributes="member: 447">How 'bout these numbers?I got 172,000 hits and a definition link for &quot;justiciar&quot; on Google.I got 126,000 hits for &quot;justicar&quot; on Google.EDIT: I'm not trying to be snarky here. I'm actually trying to say that no conclusion can really be drawn about which spelling is more &quot;popular,&quot; since that seems to be a criterion we're adopting for how things &quot;can&quot; be spelled (versus, I suppose, how they &quot;ought&quot; to be spelled).I mean nothing by it; I'm just musing. For example, how many WOW players know about the &quot;Justicar&quot; gear? How many of those know &quot;justicar&quot; didn't originate as a proper noun? How many know that its brother word &quot;justiciar&quot; means, roughly, &quot;an officer of a law court&quot;? I don't think there's any proof that &quot;justicar&quot; has been adopted by nine million people as an alternate spelling for &quot;justiciar,&quot; just as I don't think there's any proof it's been adopted by everyone who read WOTC's &quot;Complete Warrior.&quot; In fact, I think it's conceivable, in the alternative, that most who've read the word in gaming material think it's either a proper noun, gaming jargon, or an invented word. And either way it's a hypothesis that can't really be tested.But maybe, ultimately, this is all entirely off-topic and we ought to all go back to our respective corners while accepting that WOTC is going to spell it &quot;justiciar.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Marius Delphus, post: 4194197, member: 447"] How 'bout these numbers? I got 172,000 hits and a definition link for "justiciar" on Google. I got 126,000 hits for "justicar" on Google. EDIT: I'm not trying to be snarky here. I'm actually trying to say that no conclusion can really be drawn about which spelling is more "popular," since that seems to be a criterion we're adopting for how things "can" be spelled (versus, I suppose, how they "ought" to be spelled). I mean nothing by it; I'm just musing. For example, how many WOW players know about the "Justicar" gear? How many of those know "justicar" didn't originate as a proper noun? How many know that its brother word "justiciar" means, roughly, "an officer of a law court"? I don't think there's any proof that "justicar" has been adopted by nine million people as an alternate spelling for "justiciar," just as I don't think there's any proof it's been adopted by everyone who read WOTC's "Complete Warrior." In fact, I think it's conceivable, in the alternative, that most who've read the word in gaming material think it's either a proper noun, gaming jargon, or an invented word. And either way it's a hypothesis that can't really be tested. But maybe, ultimately, this is all entirely off-topic and we ought to all go back to our respective corners while accepting that WOTC is going to spell it "justiciar." [/QUOTE]

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