It's LENS. Not LENSE!!!

digital paradise wrote in post #15229485
However I do not dislike it as much as this term. Synch. That makes me batty. To me it is "sync speed" not "synch speed". Synch to me describes something simple like "moving that piano over was a real synch". Not sure how synch is spelt when used in that term. My mind always pronounces the h like in "lunch" when reading synch. It must be is a correct term as it shows no spelling error. Still bugs me - a lot.

Sorry for going off topic. Did not think this deserved a thread of it's own.

"sync" or "synch" are both just attempts at abbreviation. The real word is "synchronization" So you can see where the 'h' comes from.

The other word you are looking for is "cinch". The literal meaning is pulling together cords or straps. The connotation is something that is simple or easy to do.

I know both sync and synch are abbreviations. Still bugs me. My mind just can't shut down the h Thanks for cinch spelling.

Much discussion on this forum has to do with the giving and taking of advice. When I read a post written by someone who cannot spell words in their field of purported expertise, I'm off to the next post.

It is not the writer who decides if spelling or grammar matters, it is the reader. If you want to be a convincing writer, proper spelling helps. If you do not care one way or the other, why write?

2ndviolinman wrote in post #15229544
Much discussion on this forum has to do with the giving and taking of advice. When I read a post written by someone who cannot spell words in their field of purported expertise, I'm off to the next post.

It is not the writer who decides if spelling or grammar matters, it is the reader. If you want to be a convincing writer, proper spelling helps. If you do not care one way or the other, why write?

To be fair, the most common encounters of "lense' comes from newcomers. The typical appearance of the non-word usually looks like:

"I just got a new dSLR and I was thinking about adding a lense or two. What would be good to look at?"

One rarely sees experienced photographers using the term, mainly because they encounter a thread like this one sooner or later. And despite all the odd protests in this thread, few people persist in being wrong on spelling once they learn of their error. Few people like to appear ignorant.

breney wrote in post #15205723
Just wanted to vent there

I thought I smelled something.

Im guilty of this misspelling. Lens- lense. Dont sweat the small stuff. Life is too short to worry about what other people do.

skygod44 wrote in post #15208823
Simon
[PS: I'm an English teacher 'on-the-side' in Japan, so this matters to me, more than to most of you I expect.]

And how does one pronounce Nikon in Japan??

English is a tough language to master but there are many "trained linguists" among us

JimmyJam wrote in post #15229428
Have to admit I'm a "lens" purist as well. When faced with people who claim that "lense" is "also correct", I ask for a PUBLISHED example in any formal magazine such as PopPhoto, Outdoor Photography, or the like, or any book by the revered folks such as Scott Kelby, Bryan Peterson, or the like. Never have I seen "lense" used in those situation. My position is that "lense" is on the same level as "ain't", "irregardless", and other bastardizations that are not just incorrect, but put the user in the bad light of ignorance. Mere usage does not condone illiteracy.

Could any of our British friends who might have a UK-edited/published version of a popular mag or book check to see if "lense" is used in them? I have some UK magazines, and don't see it in any of them.

If I wanted this thread to go on forever, I could write that the "Bard," William Shakespeare used ain't and that his English is modern english. But, I won't.

That's another word I get screwed up sometimes.... Bored and board....

I believe one really learn humor when you can laugh at yourself.

auto-clicker wrote in post #15229747
English is a tough language to master but there are many "trained linguists" among us

I would hazard a guess that there are one or two cunning linguists as well.

DunnoWhen wrote in post #15230016
I would hazard a guess that there are one or two cunning linguists as well.

dirty.

OK, I wasn't going to bring this up, but since breny started this thread... why is lense pronounced len-z, but sense is pronounced cents? -rick

I think someone said once that English language was cobbled up by two drunken men armed with a German dictionary

alazgr8 wrote in post #15230080
OK, I wasn't going to bring this up, but since breny started this thread... why is lense pronounced len-z

It's not. 'lens' and 'lenz' have subtly different pronounciations.

alazgr8 wrote in post #15230080
but sense is pronounced cents

Again, it's not. When pronounced correctly the 't' is 'cents' should be audible.