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On 2015-05-19, GMM wrote:
On 18/05/2015 23:47, Tim Watts wrote:
On 18/05/15 23:05, Malcolm Race wrote:
On 18/05/2015 20:37, Tim Watts wrote:
On 18/05/15 20:14, Jonno wrote:

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I'm going to start a campaign to put the "ph" back into sulphur.

and the u back into colour.

er - it's still there...

"sulfur" is the new official english scientific spelling since a decade
or two ago - apparently.


I'm not sure such merkanisms are official, but more likely the fault of
MS Word.

Um, no. They're decided by IUPAC - the International Union of Pure
and Applied Chemists.

Yup, IIRC, Sulfur was adopted as the official spelling by IUPAC in
1990, and by the RSC in the UK a little later.

I think it's sensible to have a internationally agreed spelling of such
things. IIRC, there is an argument that -f makes more sense given the
latin root of the word, -ph being a Greek thing.

It doesn't mean someone can't use the -ph spelling, but I would use the
internationally accepted spelling in documents where it mattered.

Personally, I pretty laid back on the changing style of English, it
always has, and will continue to do so.
--
Chris French