"Quizas" is valid? Not according to ...

Question

the RAE. I saw this word in a thread, spelled without the accent, quizas. I learned it as quizás and/or quizá, so I checked it with the dictionary here on Span¡shD!ct and lo and behold, quizas is said to be correct. However, according to the RAE, quizas without the accent won't fly. So, are both forms (spelling) acceptable, quizas and quizás ?

Which browser do you use.? - viajero, Jul 12, 2010

Firefox - Jack-OBrien, Jul 12, 2010

That explains, Why I was unable to type rae in captilal letters and you could. - viajero, Jul 12, 2010

Answer 1

Hola,

Yo jamás lo he visto sin la tilde. Dudo que sea aceptable.

Yo tampoco, hasta ayer. - Jack-OBrien, Jul 12, 2010

Is this the first time that you have seen an error in our dictionary? Paralee has dominion over dictionary error fixes according to Heidita. - 0074b507, Jul 13, 2010

No. I've seen a few others, but I've never reported them. - Jack-OBrien, Jul 13, 2010

Answer 2

Thanks for the PM, Quentin. Quizás is now corrected to the accented form. This word most certainly always has a tilde over the A.

Thank you! - Jack-OBrien, Jul 13, 2010

Answer 3

I'll send a link to Paralee on this discussion and another error that we had earlier. Just letting you know so she doesn't get two dozen PM's.

Hopefully, she responds and corrects the error. - --Mariana--, Jul 13, 2010

Answer 4

The accented variant is correct. There are other words ending in as such as más that should carry an accent over the A as well, but they are being accepted without accents, even though it is techically incorrect.

This is similar to the degredation of the English language, but on a much smaller scale.

Answer 5

According to the RAE dictionary:

La palabra quizas no está registrada en el Diccionario. Las que se muestran a continuación tienen una escritura cercana.

* quizás

That's what "won't fly" means :~) - Jack-OBrien, Jul 12, 2010