Break or Brake

[JASmith]

I will contribute and, in so doing, suggest that the 'official' terminology changes with the groups of folks. For example, we have reticle and reticule:

• Reticle appears to be used largely in the US hunting community
  
• Reticule appears to be used in the US military precsion shooting community
  

Both terms appear to be acceptable, but the [B]Free Online Dictionary[/B] indicates that reticle is preferred and that reticule is less commonly used. I suspect that this difference can be traced back to the struggles between French and English language usage as the respective countries jockeyed for world domination a century or three (or four) ago.

Adding to the confusion, the spell-checker in this form accepts reticule as a correctly spelled word but not, the more common reticule.

Yes, I know that we have strong adherents for both.

I propose both forms be included in the lexicon with notes indicating where one spelling is preferred and vice-versa.