Sunday Rest: chicest. Word Not To Use Today.

There should be some way of writing down a non-confusing version of the word that means most chic - but if there is I don't know what it is.

There's no problem when the word chicest is said out loud, but when written down I always end up wondering what on earth a chice is (sadly, a chice doesn't seem to be anything. It isn't even in the Oxford English Dictionary)*.

So what to do? Chic is the last thing to describe this confusion.

Chic-est?

No: that just draws attention to the problem.

Most chic?

Supremely chic?

Either of those last two will do. 

Just as long as I'm not having to worry about chice.

Sunday Rest: chicest. The word chic arrived in French in the 1800s, but no one is certain where it came from.

*Unless chice is the plural of chouse on the mouse/mice model... that would be great, but sadly chouse is a verb, so it isn't. It means to trick or cheat.