What's In A Name?

[Nicholas Robinson]

On Thursday 17 April 2008 23:42:51 Bob Goodwin USA wrote:
> 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.

IIRC, y'all spell telephone rather than telefone, so why not sulphur?

Whilst on the subject of spellings, we should really spell 'program' in the 
context of computers as 'programme' in real English, since we Brits invented 
the habit.

Must go, time phor bed.