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[BMO]

Are they interchangeable?

Thanks.

bmo

[pugachevV]

I have only ever seen it written de luxe. It is French for "of luxury" and has been adopted into English to mean luxurious, or of a superior kind.

[Lorikeet]

I've only seen it as "deluxe" but the dictionary also lists "de luxe." There is no "delux" listed.

[BMO]

Thanks. But if you do a search on the Internet, you will see many. Just search for "Delux model."

[Lorikeet]

[BMO]

So is delux wrong then, it is not even an informal word?

[advoca]

Ah, here we have a problem.

What do we advise students when there is a word used on the web but the word is not in any dictionary?

Google will say that there about 760.000 entries usng the word delux so we teachers cannot say it is not a word in common use. A heck of a lot of people are using the word.

Will it ever be entered in any dictionary? I doubt it.

Should we advise students to use the word? Aye, there's the rub.

My advice to BMO (or anyone else) would be not to use it; use deluxe instead for that is the correct spelling.

But delux is certainly not an informal word. It is just an incorrect spelling of deluxe.

[BMO]

Ok, it is a good advice. It is interesting though that I thought it was a word, at least an informal word, but was puzzled when I could not find it in any dictionary, and yet there are so many on the Internet.

Thanks a lot.