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Originally Posted by smartie  You are right, it is lens. Though so many people seem to be using the other spelling these days that maybe it will become an accepted alternative soon. |
I've only ever seen the spelling 'lense' once or twice on this forum so it does seem a local thing.
We've been into spelling problems in great detail from time to time but, has anyone looked at this from the direction of the sounds of letters?
In English 's' has two sounds, soft 'z' and hard 'ss'. Lens rhymes with fens (soft s); put an 'e' on the end and it rhymes with sense (hard s).
Not all spelling problems can be resolved so easily, of course ......
