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> uh... I change that

The variant spellings are all standard English, and, notably, in the British English that Hinton speaks, dyke is a common spelling for a levee built against water. As in, Offa's Dyke, a large earthwork in the UK.



See also: Dick Van Dyke, which is another example of a perfectly normal usage without any possibilities of euphemistic interpretation.


As lampooned in Austin Powers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpiP_jN1Pv4




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