lens lense

I find it amazing that, on a forum that deals exclusively with photography, there appear to be so many people who cannot spell lens, for some reason putting an 'e' on the end of it. It's hardly an uncommon work in our hobby/profession is it?

They don't teach spelling in schools any more.

Americans

Roy Mathers wrote in post #2831380
I find it amazing that, on a forum that deals exclusively with photography, there appear to be so many people who cannot spell lens, for some reason putting an 'e' on the end of it. It's hardly an uncommon work in our hobby/profession is it?

Not everybody have english as their native language.

Roy Mathers wrote in post #2831380
It's hardly an uncommon work in our hobby/profession is it?

Did someone say something about spelling/typos?

lense

noun
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images [Syn: lens]

WordNet® 2.1, © 2005 Princeton University

Main Entry: lens
Variant: also lense /'lenz/
Function: noun
1 : a curved piece of glass or plastic used singly or combined in eyeglasses or an optical instrument (as a microscope) for forming an image

Ignorance

Poindexter wrote in post #2831435
Americans

[QUOTE=T Kubik;2831449]lense

noun
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images [Syn: lens]

WordNet® 2.1, © 2005 Princeton University


Does that say anything about American English education?

theague wrote in post #2831469
Ignorance

Don't take my post the wrong way - I am an American. I was having fun with the OP, who is from the UK.

Don't make fun of people in the UK. They might send some guys in red coats over here. You know what a mess that was last time.

Jon, The Elder wrote in post #2832085
Don't make fun of people in the UK. They might send some guys in red coats over here. You know what a mess that was last time.

I don't care if they come with red coats... I want them to come with red-ringed lenses

T Kubik wrote in post #2831449
lense

noun
a transparent optical device used to converge or diverge transmitted light and to form images [Syn: lens]

WordNet® 2.1, © 2005 Princeton University

Main Entry: lens
Variant: also lense /'lenz/
Function: noun
1 : a curved piece of glass or plastic used singly or combined in eyeglasses or an optical instrument (as a microscope) for forming an image

Pot-ay-toe, pot-ah-toe. Thanks for actually doing some research! This forum could use more of people like you!

I did an extensive on-line search of English-language general references and found only two that had the spelling "lense": an old Merriam-Webster (ca 1940s), which listed it as an alternative dialectic spelling; and the Princeton reference.

Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, more-modern Merriam Websters, Random House, Encarta, and everyone else list only "lens."

As for Princeton, well, they ARE in New Jersey.

The exception is in medical dictionaries, where for some reason "lense" is an excepted alternative spelling. So if you are a medical professional, okay, you may spell it "lense."

In photography (journals, dictionaries, references, texts, etc.), however, it is always spelled "lens."

All things aside, this is a photography forum, not an English forum. I, for one, may hate the spelling and grammer used herein, but I shan't lose any sleep over it. Well, not much sleep, anyway--even when it is so blatant as to offend my sensibilities.

My personal pet peeve in this category is people who take pictures with a "Cannon." Must be a messy process.

Jon, The Elder wrote in post #2832085
Don't make fun of people in the UK. They might send some guys in red coats over here. You know what a mess that was last time.

Now come along, those chaps from Butlins mean no real harm!

20droger wrote in post #2832783
Must be a messy process.

nice.