Yeah, we dig, and we love! In the course of doing work on 50s slang, ran across this quote from Peter Lawford, member of the so-called Rat Pack along with Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Joey Bishop, etc.

So is it rescission or recision? Or even recission — which appears in a definition on the Legal Information Institute at Cornell (right before they also spell it rescission). Arrgh. @merriam-webster.com @dictionarycom — can you help us out here? What’s the most common spelling today?

Then there’s an alternate spelling, recision, with a broader peak—from 1977 to 1983 —followed by a similar, even more pronounced, collapse.

Well, we found that there was an act in 1933 that allowed stock purchasers the right to rescind transactions due to fraud, and, in 1977, the US proposed rescinding funds for international security assistance. But other dates also had major instances of rescissions.