What's In A Name?
Ric Moore
wayward4now at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 06:29:42 UTC 2008
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:36 -0400, Bob Goodwin USA 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.
> >
> >
> > Bob Goodwin
> >
> >
> And the dictionary:
>
> *usage* The spelling /sulfur/ predominates in United States
> technical usage, while both /sulfur/ and /sulphur/ are common in
> general usage. British usage tends to favor /sulphur/ for all
> applications. The same pattern is seen in most of the words derived
> from /sulfur.
I guess we should use "colour" as well?? SORRY!! <cackles> Ric
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