I it a lens or a lense?

My browser flags 'colour' as being spelled incorrectly

20droger wrote in post #9246133
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Dead wrong. Many of us mind the desecration of the language. We mind very much.

In usual life I too, as I work in a very grammar-strict environment, would normally mind, but as this is an international forum I forgive people's slight errors in language.
My swahili is not too hot either.

Anke wrote in post #9245449
.. and most people here don't have English as their first language .....

...and on the whole, they speak and write the language better than those for whom the language is native.

number six wrote in post #9246436
And, as I recall, even spelled his own name several different ways...

Yes, of the six known signatures, they were all different - and none was William Shakespeare.

Spelling wasn't as precise in his day though, many words had several different spellings as people were unused to seeing the written word much and if they hadn't seen a word before, they wrote it as they thought seemed correct.

If a vowel-consonant-vowel sequence occurs, the normal spelling rule is to pronounce the first vowel as a long vowel sound.
Lense is pronounced LEEENSE
I don't know what a leense is.
I think that some people just assume that you drop the s from the plural to get the singular form.
English is strange and has lots of exceptions
But I happen to have a lens on my camera, even though I own a few lenses.

when in doubt, lolcat

hence: lenzes

as in: I can has a lenzes?

thankyou, come again.

lanno wrote in post #9246966
when in doubt, lolcat

Don't get me started on those.

This one is epic.

Raikyn wrote in post #9246575
My browser flags 'colour' as being spelled incorrectly

install the right dictionary

I think you will find the correct spelling of LENS LENSE to be "GLASS WITH A RED RING"

rvdw98 wrote in post #9247050
Don't get me started on those.

This one is epic.

kthxbai

I have almost given up noticing the errant "e" on the end of lens, but I will not accept people calling their "gear" gears.

Gear in the context of "stuff" is already plural, gears are toothed wheels used to transfer drive.

Lense irritates me about as much as the various "lolcat", "epic fail", "gears" etc.

Online dictionaries are known for accepting various things are correct (generally the ones that accept user suggestions).The better established dictionaries like Oxford English Dictionaries which actually research their input would never accept lense.

And dont get me started on American English - colour (color)? aluminium (aluminum)? etc

neilwood32 wrote in post #9247490
And dont get me started on American English - colour (color)? aluminium (aluminum)? etc

We fought a war so that we could spell these words as we please. So there!

neilwood32 wrote in post #9247490
Lense irritates me about as much as the various "lolcat", "epic fail", "gears" etc.

Online dictionaries are known for accepting various things are correct (generally the ones that accept user suggestions).The better established dictionaries like Oxford English Dictionaries which actually research their input would never accept lense.

And dont get me started on American English - colour (color)? aluminium (aluminum)? etc

extended narrative poem success

artyH wrote in post #9246892
If a vowel-consonant-vowel sequence occurs, the normal spelling rule is to pronounce the first vowel as a long vowel sound.
Lense is pronounced LEEENSE
I don't know what a leense is.
I think that some people just assume that you drop the s from the plural to get the singular form.
English is strange and has lots of exceptions
But I happen to have a lens on my camera, even though I own a few lenses.

But that is not a vowel-consonant-vowel form. It is a vowel-consonant-consonant-vowel form.

Now you can amuse yourself by speculating upon the fact that the English alphabet has twenty-six letters, five of which are vowels but only nineteen of which are consonants.