Discussion
Find the correctly spelt word:
Answer: B
Correct answer: Diarrhoea
The correct British spelling is diarrhoea - a double r, an h after it, and the vowel pair oe at the end. It comes from the Greek diarrhoia, from dia, through, and rhein, to flow - the same rh as in rhythm, rheumatism and haemorrhage. The oe is a Greek diphthong that British English preserves and American English simplifies to a plain e, giving diarrhea. The same split runs through the medical vocabulary: oesophagus and esophagus, foetus and fetus, anaemia and anemia, paediatric and pediatric. Indian examinations follow the British forms. The doubled r with a following h also appears in haemorrhage, catarrh and myrrh, all of them Greek in origin.
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