Re: What's In A Name?

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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.


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