What's In A Name?
Néstor
rotsen at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 15:14:15 UTC 2008
*You are correct there is not Sulfur
*<http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltObtenerHtml?origen=RAE&LEMA=%C3%A1cido&SUPIND=0&CAREXT=10000&NEDIC=No#%C3%A1cido_sulf%C3%BArico.>
*
*<http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltObtenerHtml?origen=RAE&LEMA=%C3%A1cido&SUPIND=0&CAREXT=10000&NEDIC=No#%C3%A1cido_sulf%C3%BArico.>
*there is **sulfúrico*<http://buscon.rae.es/draeI/SrvltObtenerHtml?origen=RAE&LEMA=%C3%A1cido&SUPIND=0&CAREXT=10000&NEDIC=No#%C3%A1cido_sulf%C3%BArico.>=
sulfuric
I need to start reading my spanish dictionary again....
Spanglish :-)
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Néstor <rotsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> I meant to say SPANGLISH....:-)
>
>
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan <
> pocallaghan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:07 -0700, =?ISO-8859-1?Q? N=E9stor _ wrote:
> > > Maybe you are using a Spanish dictionary because that is how I spell
> > > it in Spanish :-)
> >
> > Wierd. In Spanish I spell it 'azufre'.
> >
> > poc
> >
> >
> > > 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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