What's In A Name?

[Bob Goodwin USA]

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.