Date:  Mon, 4 Dec 1995 06:44:20 -0500

From:  Charity Stafford <cls[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]WORLD.STD.COM>

Subject: Re: I before E



> The query about <receipt> reminded me that my great aunt used to say (and

> write) <recipe> for that, and my mother would always comment when I noted

> it that "a lot of people used to use that, but <receipt> is the more

> 'modern' form." Has anybody else run into that usage?

>     --Rudy Troike



Hmm. I've heard of the opposite usage - "receipt" used for

"recipe" - and understood it to be very old-fashioned.



Charity