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.
