mccamy@squirt.DEC (01/29/85)
From: "...decvax!decwrl!rhea!Squirt!McCamy" Merrimack, New Hampshire Lens and lense are BOTH correct!
2141smh@aluxe.UUCP (S. M. Henning,) (02/01/85)
> Lens and lense are BOTH correct!
Not is Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary or on the UNIX dictionary.
The American Heritage Dictionary doesn't have 'lense' either.gino@voder.UUCP (Gino Bloch) (02/05/85)
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san@peora.UUCP (Sanjay Tikku) (02/27/85)
> From: "...decvax!decwrl!rhea!Squirt!McCamy" > Merrimack, New Hampshire > > Lens and lense are BOTH correct! In "American English" it is "lens" for singular and "lenses" for plural. I don't think "lense" exists at all. Maybe in "British English"!!
ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (03/01/85)
> > From: "...decvax!decwrl!rhea!Squirt!McCamy" > > Merrimack, New Hampshire > > > > Lens and lense are BOTH correct! > > In "American English" it is "lens" for singular and "lenses" for > plural. I don't think "lense" exists at all. Maybe in "British English"!! FINAL DEFINITIVE ANSWER. First, Random House doesn't list the alternate spelling at all. Second, Websters lists it with "also LENSE." This means it is a less common spelling. So technically it is correct, however any reasonable writer will use the primary spellings of words and not resort to the "it's in the dictionary" arguments to justify use of the alternates. Any more on the subject can be had in net.nlang.