Re: Shuffle Master (was Re: [ba-poker] Bay 101 trip report)

[Phil Gustafson <phil(deleted the rest)>]

Our lowball historian writes:

> At 11:16 AM, Sunday, 2/6/2005 -0800, Alan Bostick wrote:
> >[1] Aside to Michael Wiesenberg:  "anted" or "anteed"?  THE OFFICIAL
> >DICTIONARY OF POKER doesn't specify, and they both look wrong to my
> >eye.
> 
> Interestingly, they're both right.  I wouldn't have thought so, and I don't 
> like "anteed," but both the Random House Unabridged Dictionary of the 
> English Language and American Heritage list "anteed" as the less common 
> alternative.  Merriam-Webster allows only "anted."  It's hard to make a 
> rule, because I can't find any other English verb that ends in "nte" and in 
> which the final "te" is a separate syllable. 

The Oxford English Dictionary has an 1848 reference that says "anteed".
I think it looks ugly myself and am loth to allow Limeys to spell our
national game.

Note that the meaning of "ante" has changed several times over the
years.  See, if you can, _Webster's Poker Book_ (Simon & Schuster,
1925).

Ph.