Twitter spellings test
Posted 15/07/2011 - 20:15
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I don't care about any spelling mistake except one.
LENSE.
It really bugs me when people spell LENS like that. I think it's because the repeat offenders are often people with a generally good standard of written English, and I just can't see how they haven't picked up the correct spelling, especially if they frequent forums like this. 'Lense' also seems like how Samuel Pepys or someone from that era might have spelled it.
Lense, lense, lense. It's like they are doing it on purpose specifically to annoy me!
And.... relax.
LENSE.
It really bugs me when people spell LENS like that. I think it's because the repeat offenders are often people with a generally good standard of written English, and I just can't see how they haven't picked up the correct spelling, especially if they frequent forums like this. 'Lense' also seems like how Samuel Pepys or someone from that era might have spelled it.
Lense, lense, lense. It's like they are doing it on purpose specifically to annoy me!
And.... relax.
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Posted 15/07/2011 - 20:37
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Pentaxophile wrote:
Lense, lense, lense. It's like they are doing it on purpose specifically to annoy me!
And.... relax.
Lense, lense, lense. It's like they are doing it on purpose specifically to annoy me!
And.... relax.
I think you've hit the nail on the head there.
Posted 15/07/2011 - 20:41
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The naile on the heade, you mean!
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Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:01
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Well... it seems that some dictionary do say that lense is a correct alternative spelling though, but it isn't standard but not wrong either it seems.
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary 1995 is for example one of them.
Here is a "small" list with most of the common English errors.
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary 1995 is for example one of them.
Here is a "small" list with most of the common English errors.
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/errors.html
Stefan
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Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:06
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95% here. I suspect an American/English communication error...
I know I get thoroughly fed up with Firefox spell check telling me that I've spelled modelling wrong. It has two "l"s in English. I don't care what they do to it on the other side of the Atlantic!
I know I get thoroughly fed up with Firefox spell check telling me that I've spelled modelling wrong. It has two "l"s in English. I don't care what they do to it on the other side of the Atlantic!
Matt
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Shooting the Welsh Wilderness with K-m, KX, MX, ME Super and assorted lenses.
Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:11
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I have the British English dictionary on Firefox - no problem with spelling modelling or lens here .
Lense does seem to be accepted over the Atlantic though .
Lense does seem to be accepted over the Atlantic though .
Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:12
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Every photographic magazine or book I have ever seen uses the spelling lens.
It's only since the advent of internet forums that the spelling lense has crept in at all. I presume it's because some writers have mistakenly taken the plural lenses to indicate a singlar of lense.
I think we can take it that in our context lens is the correct spelling.
It's only since the advent of internet forums that the spelling lense has crept in at all. I presume it's because some writers have mistakenly taken the plural lenses to indicate a singlar of lense.
I think we can take it that in our context lens is the correct spelling.
Best regards, John
Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:24
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But John, how did it then come in a 1995 dictionary or were forms already that big then?
Stefan
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Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:26
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Maybe we should start calling them photographic objectives instead.
Lense is an accepted spelling in America John, from before the arrival of the internet.
Oh and I go 100% in Stefan's test .
Lense is an accepted spelling in America John, from before the arrival of the internet.
Oh and I go 100% in Stefan's test .
Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:31
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I have to say that I have a lot of US books here of all ages, and not one of them deviates from "lens".
I haven't seen the dictionary Stefan refers to, but again all those I have seen, and also Encyclopaedia Britannica, all use "lens"
Even the town in France called Lens has no e on the end!
I haven't seen the dictionary Stefan refers to, but again all those I have seen, and also Encyclopaedia Britannica, all use "lens"
Even the town in France called Lens has no e on the end!
Best regards, John
Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:33
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This the one John.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Merriam-Websters-Medical-Dictionary-Prescription-Underst... only 1,33 Pounds used
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary and Merriam-Webster is a subsidiary of Encyclopędia Britannica.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Merriam-Websters-Medical-Dictionary-Prescription-Underst... only 1,33 Pounds used
Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary and Merriam-Webster is a subsidiary of Encyclopędia Britannica.
Stefan
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Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:35
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Gwyn wrote:
Oh and I go 100% in Stefan's test .
Oh and I go 100% in Stefan's test .
Super, i wonder if the others didn't do the test or are afraid to tell their results
Stefan
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Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:38
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Ah Stefan, I'm not likely to be buying a medical dictionary to refer to lenses, but of more relevance at this moment is how did you put the a and e correctly together? Is there a key stroke or something else?
Best regards, John
Posted 15/07/2011 - 21:40
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johnriley wrote:
but of more relevance at this moment is how did you put the a and e correctly together? Is there a key stroke or something else?
but of more relevance at this moment is how did you put the a and e correctly together? Is there a key stroke or something else?
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http://theoatmeal.com/quiz/twitter_spell
I'm wondering what you will score.
English isn't my native language, i'm a student and dyslectic and i scored 80% correct, hopefully that's quite decent.
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