Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]How about as a verb, as in to do what lenses do, to lense? Dan C. At 01:47 AM 31-08-01 +0100, leica@davidmorton.org wrote: >Herbert & Lee Kanner wrote: > >"A few months ago, I violated all the rules of good behavior on the >rec.photo.equipment.35mm newsgroup by criticizing spelling: I just >got fed up at seeing "lense." So, my good natured protest was >answered by: "Yank, idiot. That's how it's spelled in the UK. I've >been spelling it that way for 50 years." So, I responded stating >that the Compact Oxford English Dictionary did not allow that >spelling. Answer: "That's a very abridged dictionary." I came back >at the guy with a reference to the full multi-volume OED, which had >only one definition for "lense," namely "to make lean," as in meat." > >You were right too. There's no UK dictionary that gives 'lense' as an >acceptable alternative to 'lens'. In UK English to use the spelling 'lense' >for an optical component or device is *always* wrong. >