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The New York Times Saturday Review of Books: Dr. Walter W. Skeat. in "An Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," treating of this word, derives it from the low Latin "dispedicare." through the old French "despecher," and modern French "depecher." and says: "The spoiling 'dispatch' is very common, but 'despatch ' is the more correct."
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