How not to spell "circumcise"

If you can't spell it...

- Russell Crowe on Twitter, June 9, 2011 quoted in the Daily Mail, June 19, 2011

"Circumcise" is derived from the Latin words meaning "cut around". It is nothing to do with sizing, nor with the "-ize" that means "to cause to become". The spelling with "-cis-" is as mandatory as in "incised", "incisive" and "incision", "decisive" and "decision", "concise", "precise" etc.

It might seem picky to pillory people who misspell "circumcise", but when someone says they've "done their research" without having picked up the spelling, something is wrong, as Russell Crowe pointed out.

For example:

Those (-ciz- and -siz-) are the commonest.

Hereafter, alphabetical (disregarding "un-"):

ce-

spelll- cercomceshion

''cercomecision

''cercomesied''

spell-cercomsized-''autocorrected''

- "autocorrected" to insert four typos....

spell - (curcumsized), cercumaizion

spell-cercumcised

#10

spell-cercumsised

'cercumsized-cercumcision

''cercumsized ... cecumsized'

cic-

20#

circ-

circo-

#30
circu-

"Bloodstained Men is an anti-circucision activist group. Brother K wants ... to encourage laws to be put in place to stop circucision."

- Brianna Cook, WGXA, September 30, 2022, 0:44

circum-

circumci-

circumcis-

(The only correct spellings, circumcise, circumcised, circumcising, circumcision, go here.)

spell - circumcisiton - Times of Israel!

- Hayim Leiter, "The New Yorker's Botched Circumcision article", Times of Israel, October 7, 2021

#40

- The Jerusalem Post

circumcit-

circumciz-

circumcu-

#50
circume-

circums-

#60

- and an extra mark for "pines"

#70

circumsiz- has already been noted, but this example - the J. Paul Getty Museum catalogue's entry for Robert Mapplethorpe's famous photo, "Man in a Polyester Suit" - is astonishing (and unnecessary).