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#1 2006-11-08 12:17:57

Peter Forster
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From: UK
Registered: 2006-09-06
Posts: 1258

'superseeded' for 'superseded'

superseded – 11,200,000 ghits
superseeded – 159,000 ghits

Wikipedia has supersede as: ‘to displace in favour of another’, something which may be expected of a ‘superseed’.

This unit has been superseeded and is no longer available, ... This unit has been superseeded by the DR/2800 however we still have a few items. ...
www.camlab.co.uk/category.asp?categoryi … goryid=309 – 120k

Especially, if a calculator is totally superseeded by another one, I am not so interested … In that definition, the 32SII is not superseeded by the 42S, ...
www.hpmuseum.org/cgi-sys/cgiwrap/hpmuse … read=62363 – 17k –

... on genetic analysis, only morphology, so they may well become superseeded. ... For the correct capitalization and spelling of common names of plants and …
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia_talk:WikiProject_Plants – 209k –

One can argue inconclusively till the Linnaean system is superseeded whether … that will be evaluated in a course on Plant Ecology and Diversity at the …
bugs.bio.usyd.edu.au/AustMycolSoc/Journal/1997/ISS16_Sept97_3.pdf

On the other hand, I wouldn’t be too surprised if it was just a mis-spelling…

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