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[edit] Akee or Ackee?

Don't know myself. Others, preferably West African and Caribbean wikipedians, please comment!

A Google hit test (not a very reliable indicator, but can sometimes be helpful):

• Akee - 157,000
• Ackee - 226,000
• Akee Blighia - 16,400
• Ackee Blighia - 721

With the common name alone, Ackee wins, but in combination with the scientific name, Akee wins very strongly. What do others think? - MPF 23:42, 28 May 2006 (UTC)

Good question. The Jamaican government website says Ackee [1], as does a UWI-Mona site [2]. The FDA uses the spelling ackee [3], it's favoured 19-4 at fda.gov. usda.gov favours akee 68 to 27. Google scholar (which looks at scientific pubs) favours Ackee 314-286 (although Akee is also a name, so many of the latter hits are not for the fruit). Looking through the Akee/Blighia links, it appears that Akee is favoured by American botanical sites (hort.purdue.edu) and is used on a Kew webpage. But botanic gardens aren't the last word on the issue. It appears that Jamaican-related sites favour ackee, food-related sites also seem to favour ackee. Since these don't tend to include the generic name, this may explain the Blighia disparity.

My sense is that the Jamaican spelling leans towards Ackee, and since Ackee is most strongly associated with Jamaica in English (the UWI-Mona page says that the African name is Akye fufo), that we should go with Ackee. Alternately, we could go with a coin flip ;) Guettarda 15:37, 29 May 2006 (UTC)

I STRONGLY believe that the generally accepted spelling should be Ackee. As indicated by the google hit count Ackee is preferred. After searching technical literature I also find that this is the preferred spelling, although it's interesting that it doesn't show in the google count. I believe that the primary link should be to Ackee and this is in keeping with what the majority of people who would be researching the fruit would type. As a Jamaican, Ackee is commonly studied by school children and if a child spelt it 'Akee' they would be admonished. The pairing of 'blighia' with 'akee' vs. 'ackee' is interesting, but I believe since we are talking about the common name, we should use the most popular spelling from the country where it is reknown for. Believe me, I have asked other Jamaicans about it and they think the idea of the spelling 'akee' is absurd - in fact many have never heard of that spelling. Since Jamaica, is also has the 3rd largest Anglophone population in the Northern Hemisphere, I think we should pay particular attention to the accepted spelling there.

I have also found that 'Akee' is a common last name, and many of the pages accounted for when searching for Akee are in fact referring to a person not the fruit. GAThrawn22 19:24, 02, Jun 2006 (UTC)

Any thoughts from anyone in Nigeria, Ghana, Gambia, etc., (or with experience of usage there), where the species is native?

Unless there are any requests to the contrary from west African users, I'll move the page to Ackee in a day or two - MPF 10:00, 3 June 2006 (UTC)

Consensus is for a move; done. - MPF 23:45, 7 June 2006 (UTC)