Dilemma or Dilemna?

I learned that the spelling is with an “mn” rather than an “mm”. Most people say this is wrong.

So I looked it up, and it turns out that spelling it with an “mn” is an alternative spelling that took place — probably for no good reason — in the northeastern U.S. in the mid 19th century.

Living in the Buffalo suburbs until I was almost 25 explains my spelling.

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[mike shupp]

I'm from Ohio, schooled there in the 1950s and 1960's. And "dilemma" just looks RIGHT somehow, and "dilemna" just looks WRONG.

Dammit.