What's In A Name?

Bob Goodwin USA bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Thu Apr 17 22:24:52 UTC 2008


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.
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> ph is the correct spelling for real English and scientific usage...
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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




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