Steve Pope > wrote:

> Seems to me "Almondine" is a standard part of British menu English.

Certainly not. The misspelling is mostly American. If you make a
search for "almondine", you will find just seven occurrences of it on
..uk sites, but many thousands on .com, etc. The "word" is also not even
in any acceptable dictionary, which usually include widely used words
even if they are misspellings. It is not in the OED (1991 edition) and
not in Merriam-Webster.

Victor