02-24-2012, 03:58 AM
[quote name='Brightcolours' timestamp='1330052134' post='16115']
Then you know now that scrabble does not use one of the more authoritative dictionaries but webster. No matter how we twist and turn it, the correct spelling is lens, just like it is spelled in the language it comes from (german and dutch).
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And you should know that German and Dutch are capitalized in English.
And you should also know that lens derives it's name from it's resemblance to the humble lentil (Lens culinaris), probably from Galilean era Italian. German and Dutch for lentil are Linse and linze, respectively.
And I know that I start sentences with "And"...knock yourself out on that one...
Then you know now that scrabble does not use one of the more authoritative dictionaries but webster. No matter how we twist and turn it, the correct spelling is lens, just like it is spelled in the language it comes from (german and dutch).
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And you should know that German and Dutch are capitalized in English.
And you should also know that lens derives it's name from it's resemblance to the humble lentil (Lens culinaris), probably from Galilean era Italian. German and Dutch for lentil are Linse and linze, respectively.
And I know that I start sentences with "And"...knock yourself out on that one...