admission

admission
admission, admittance
Like many doublets, these two words have competed with each other for several centuries (admission first recorded in Middle English, admittance in 1589) without ever establishing totally separate roles. In the meaning corresponding to admit = ‘to acknowledge or accept as true’, admission is the word to use, not admittance. Where they get in each other's way is in meanings related to ‘the action of admitting, letting in, to a place’. Admission is the dominant word of the two: it alone has a countable use (There are more admissions in the sciences this year), and it is the only one to have developed attributive uses (admission charge, fee, money, officer, policy, process, ticket). Admittance hangs on determinedly, especially as the word used on notices on entrances (e.g. No admittance except on official business) but also as an erroneous alternative in meanings where admission is required

• (The DTI's lack of admittance of negligence in this affair is a travesty of justice —Times, 1988).


Modern English usage. 2014.

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