In a message dated 03/04/2004 18:19:13 GMT
Standard Time, chtodel@cox.net
writes:
perhaps some of us know why he, as a Francophone, did not come up
with nymphette." Instead he spells it the American way, on the model of
"cigaret," which gives a curiously masculine effect at first
sight.
The word: "Nymphet, f, a little Nymph", is
thus defined in An English Dictionary, by E.Coles, printed for Peter
Parker, London 1685.
Perhaps that's why he decided to spell it the
American way.