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Why is it that a lot of people here (professionals included) are spelling "lens" as "lense" ?
Is this a US spelling I am unaware of? |
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Paul(UK) wrote:
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I spelled it "lends" in the title of the thread I started on polarizers......guess I shouldn't have started the thread while talking about my home buying plans with my co-workers! lol
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Along the same line...is 'Wrongly" a word?
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According the dictionary.com...
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=lense Both "lens" and "lense" are correct spellings. And still with dictionary.com... http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=wrongly "Wrongly" is indeed a word. |
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Ok...lens and lense it is. But if you are talking about two or more, I think lenses is better?
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Paul(UK) wrote:
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Spellcheckers help. However, the result is that my favourite (favorite) newspaper, "The Guardian", daily includes several homonyms (same sound, different spelling, different meaning), for which they apologise (apologize) in their 'corrections & clarifications' columnnow & again. This reminds me of the FirstWordPlus wordprocessor on my Atari ST, which misspelt "misspelt" as "mispelt". To my mind "mispelt" means "throw rotten fruit" (or overseas, "throw hand grenades") at the wrong politician. Keep smiling. PS. "Focusing/focussing" is another one to consider. |
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Well I wrote "lense" a several times and I'm trying to spell it right from now on.
But I think the reason why I wrote it like that is because I am German, english is not my first language and the German equivalent to "lens" is "Linse". So I probably just left the "e" where it is in german. ![]() |
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