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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