What's In A Name?

[Ian Malone]

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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imalone