What's In A Name?
Bob Goodwin USA
bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Apr 17 22:42:51 UTC 2008
Ian Malone wrote:
> Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
>> Alan Cox wrote:
>>>> Sulphur is an awesome name! It's interesting that they decided to
>>>> use the old name of the element, spelt with a ph rather than an f.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> ph is the correct spelling for real English and scientific usage...
>>>
>>>
>> And when I type sulphur my Mozilla Thunderbird spell check offers
>> sulfur! I knew it had changed sometime over the last fifty or sixty
>> years.
>>
>>
>
> No. "Sulfur" is an American spelling; you are using Thunderbird's
> American dictionary. It is suggesting to me that I should change to
> sulphur.
>
Well certainly sulfur is a more efficient spelling, saves a few bits.
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