i learned it as sike comes from the swamp reclamation ditches in florida that skateboarders would hang out near. you’d shove someone in the ditch (sike) and say “sike” when you did a real dumb low stakes prank
That is an interesting thought. And y’know, it’s not like English hasn’t had competing spellings for words before.
As long as there’s a valid etymology, I’d treat either as correct. But granted, they can become correct through use even if it does come from a bone-apple-tea situation.
absolutely. there wasn’t any prescribed spelling for anything until i think it was the mid 1800s. and dictionaries are meant to be descriptive of the language as it is, not prescriptive of what it should be
i learned it as sike comes from the swamp reclamation ditches in florida that skateboarders would hang out near. you’d shove someone in the ditch (sike) and say “sike” when you did a real dumb low stakes prank
That is an interesting thought. And y’know, it’s not like English hasn’t had competing spellings for words before.
As long as there’s a valid etymology, I’d treat either as correct. But granted, they can become correct through use even if it does come from a bone-apple-tea situation.
absolutely. there wasn’t any prescribed spelling for anything until i think it was the mid 1800s. and dictionaries are meant to be descriptive of the language as it is, not prescriptive of what it should be