What's In A Name?

Néstor rotsen at gmail.com
Thu Apr 17 23:07:47 UTC 2008


Maybe you are using a Spanish dictionary because that is how I spell it in
Spanish :-)

On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Ian Malone <ibmalone at gmail.com> 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.
>
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