Re: fried egg, surrounded by fried bread

tony cooper wrote:

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Almost obAue: Do you spell it "lens" or "lense"? I notice in the
photography newsgroups and forums that "lense" (singular) is used
quite a bit. It doesn't seem to be pondial because many Americans use
that spelling.
I spell it "lens" as "lense" is not an English word, AFAIK.

It is, but "archaic". The following is a cut-and-paste from a
newsgroup. The poster is a person who appears occasionally in aue:

"Take a very careful look at the 18-70mm f/3.5-4.5G IF-ED
AFS lense. It is one of the best consumer lenses that
Nikon makes, and is a nice "walk around" lense for a DX
format camera."

I can't find a reference to "lense" in any dictionary, including OED. It looks like a promulgated error to me.

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David
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