Re: "cumulated" or "accumulated"

[Charles Swiger]

Hi--

On Feb 7, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
>>> In current English the verb "cumulate" seems little used outside
>>> Economics, and the word "accumulator" is more common in hardware,
>>> software, etc.  Is "cumulated" being used intentionally or would you
>>> accept a patch to change it to "accumulated"?
>> 
>> Hmm.. is ‘downstream’ an native speaker of English, or did he/she look
>> it up in a dictionary..?
> 
> I am a native Kansas speaker and using "cumulate" there reads as a very 
> unusual wording to me.

Seconded.  "accumulate" and "accumulated" seem to be in common usage here in 
the USA, particularly in the north where it gets widely used in the media with 
regard to snowfall amounts; I've never seen "cumulate" used outside of an 
Econ-101 textbook.  Checking Google suggests a 30:1 frequency ratio of the two 
words....

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck