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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martinus Scriblerus wrote: > On 5/1/06, Neil Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> One day we'll get those Yanks using aluminium too. >> ;-) > > I hope so - but they've managed to get the IUPAC to spell sulphur with > an f (something I prefer not to do). See: > http://www.worldwidewords.org/topicalwords/tw-sul1.htm > > -- > Martinus Scriblerus scripsit I'm not sure that is an American-ism, I think it's more to do with Brussels. A lot of pharmaceuticals have dropped 'ph' recently to conform to the European spellings. Most British Approved Names that included sulph... are now sulf... and cephalosporins are now cefalosporins. Other changes are replacing 'y' with 'i', dropping the silent 'h' in some names, there's a long list. - -- Neil Williams ============= http://www.data-freedom.org/ http://www.nosoftwarepatents.com/ http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEVmn2iAEJSii8s+MRAk6lAKCFKsZ2TM2JSOR+w1J/d+diFqkj8wCeIhLU I3DrXMCKmhwWhOFlkbqDdvM= =R/Va -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe. FAQ: www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html