Sulfur, Sulfa ----- Sulphur?

Jim McKenney jimmckenney@starpower.net
Wed, 09 Nov 2005 15:21:45 PST
Thanks for this post, Claude. 

The spelling should be sulfur, if only because sulfur is evidently a Latin
word rather than the phony Greek implied by the ph spelling. 

Jim McKenney
Montgomery County, Maryland, USA, USDA zone 7, where I'm aware that the
spelling of this word has long been the source of a sulfurous stink. 


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