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You don't have to spell sulphur with
an f!
Read more...
Many of you will have found that exam boards have decided to go
along with a recommendation from QCA and the RSC that sulphur should be
spelled with an 'f' rather than 'ph', ostensibly to 'avoid confusion'.
Who is confused? You don't have to spell it with an -f- ; using
the -ph- form is not a mark-deductible offence, in case you were
worried.
The defining dictionary for British
English is the Oxford English Dictionary - a work of dazzling
scholarship by a huge number of people over many decades. I take my
authority from that. Sulfur is not listed in the online version; if you
type it in you get sulphur. Of course sulfur is given as an alternative
(American) form, but the -ph- spelling has been around since at least
the 14th century and has been universal since the spelling of British
English became standardised several centuries ago.
There are seven towns in America named
for element 16: in Louisiana, Oklahoma, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming,
Arkansas, and South Dakota. All of them named Sulphur. |
Title portraits: Nobel Prize
Winners
in Chemistry
1921 - 1929:
1921 Frederick Soddy
1922 F W Aston
1923 Fritz Pregl
1924 not awarded
1925 Richard Zsigmondy
1926 Theodore Svedberg
1927 Heinrich Wieland
1928 Adolf Windaus
1929 A Harden
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
Further details are on the
Nobel
website.
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Roses in English Canal style
Samuel Morse in youth and old age
Hooke's Law: "as the tension, so the extension"
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