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<blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 4194456" data-attributes="member: 3400">Might also be from OCR errors too, depending on the original source text.Presence of a particular spelling doesn't necessarily imply intent to spell it that way. I'm reasonably certain nobody intends to refer to their high-skill point character as a variety of cosmetics. Yet they do and most of us don't think that's particularly appropriate or the creation of a new word. I'm more inclined to weigh the preponderance of use. If justiciar appears significantly more often than justicar, as it does in most of those linked documents, I'm going to assume they botched the spelling just as I'm going to assume that &quot;He saw the rouge sitting at the table&quot; means that a rogue was there, when the book has clearly been more about Gord the Rogue than the application of make-up.When it comes to gaming and the (semi-)creative naming of specific things, I'm willing to give more leeway. If WotC wanted to specifically morph the word into the name of a prestige class or character, that's their business. But I would really hope that people would recognize it for what it is - a shift for a specific purpose in the game and not a general shift in language use, particularly if WotC decides to shift it back to a standard form of the word.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="billd91, post: 4194456, member: 3400"] Might also be from OCR errors too, depending on the original source text. Presence of a particular spelling doesn't necessarily imply intent to spell it that way. I'm reasonably certain nobody intends to refer to their high-skill point character as a variety of cosmetics. Yet they do and most of us don't think that's particularly appropriate or the creation of a new word. I'm more inclined to weigh the preponderance of use. If justiciar appears significantly more often than justicar, as it does in most of those linked documents, I'm going to assume they botched the spelling just as I'm going to assume that "He saw the rouge sitting at the table" means that a rogue was there, when the book has clearly been more about Gord the Rogue than the application of make-up. When it comes to gaming and the (semi-)creative naming of specific things, I'm willing to give more leeway. If WotC wanted to specifically morph the word into the name of a prestige class or character, that's their business. But I would really hope that people would recognize it for what it is - a shift for a specific purpose in the game and not a general shift in language use, particularly if WotC decides to shift it back to a standard form of the word. [/QUOTE]

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