What's In A Name?

Néstor rotsen at gmail.com
Fri Apr 18 15:05:47 UTC 2008


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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