close… naivety 
Thank you Graham! I am noticing that my spelling, on which I used to pride myself, is going to pot 
I blame the increasing immersion in another language…
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If we’re picking nits - naïvety 
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Or naïveté 
but actually the diaresis is disappearing more and more for both the i and the second e
There are more important matters in life than spelling.
That is my thought
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True 
, being a pedant is a vocation though.
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You are right Barbara - what we were saying shows that there are a number of perfectly ok accepted spellings for that word (and many others). Spelling is important only to avoid ambiguity 
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All we need to be taught is to care about others that comes first, or should come before spelling and related topics.