Discussion
Find the correctly spelt word:
Answer: C
Correct answer: Asphyxiation
The correct spelling is asphyxiation - with a y rather than an i in the third syllable, and the full ending -iation. It is Greek, from a-, without, and sphyxis, a pulse - so the word originally meant a stopping of the pulse rather than of the breath, and the modern sense of suffocation came later. The y is the standard English rendering of the Greek letter upsilon, and it marks a large class of borrowings: physics, psychology, syntax, system, symbol, hypothesis, oxygen and myth. Where a word looks Greek, the vowel is usually y. The ph for an f sound is the same signal, rendering the Greek phi. The verb is asphyxiate and the noun for the condition itself is asphyxia, without the -tion.
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