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English
Etymology
As a mistake of second-language speakers, primarily from French dictionnaire.
Noun
dictionnary (plural dictionnaries)
- Obsolete spelling of dictionary, now parsed as (non-native speakers' English) a misspelling of dictionary.
1999 July 23, jean lastennet, “breton music”, in soc.culture.breton (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:I have no modern dictionnary on hand. But I used to understand ethnocide as the volontary destruction of a culture.
2002 May 16, Alexandre Fayolle, “sorted list vs dictionnary”, in comp.lang.python (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:I'd expect the first one to be faster, since the lookup of a key in a dictionnary is O(1), and insertion is a dictionnary is roughly O(1) too, whereas bisect_left is O(log(N)), and inserting in the middle of a list is O(N).
2003 February 11, BATTISTELLI Laurent, “dictionnary”, in adobe.indesign.windows (Usenet), retrieved 2022-06-04:So I export my dictionnary from my "old" application and I obtain them in a format *.LEX that is recognized on my computer like an "Indesign Dictionnary File"