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OT - the evolving English language
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: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B4pJAgWIUAEZb7p.jpg 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. I find that opening a document set to use US English spell/grammar checking will re-set the default in Word, which then sees UK-specific terms as wrong in all documents. I'm sure many people never change their language settings from new either. Many people use the full-fat version of autocorrect and therefore wind up with the wrong thing without even knowing it. Others may be less confident about their knowledge and when Word makes a suggestion they believe it to be right and so accept it. It doesn't help that the MS checkers seem to have been written by someone with only a rudimentary grasp of English, of any flavour. The only[1] solution is to turn off all autocorrects and take responibility for your own errors. Apart from mine, of course, for which I blame the keyboard.... [1] The other solution would be to teach English in school, ideally primary school, but the standard of undergraduate (il)literacy indicates that has been abandoned. |
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