Talk:Gilda/@comment-15629929-20131107200110/@comment-6029775-20131112071541

Old words like that, especially mythological creatures from other cultures, tend to have a lot of accepted spellings because of how much language changes.

As it would turn out in this case, griffin, griffon, and gryphon are all actually correct. Gryphon is actually the closest though, the other two are just slightly different anglicizations. Like chímaira to chimera.

This is probably the only time being a linguistics major is going to be remotely helpful...