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Why is it that nobody seems to be able to spell the word "fuchsia"?
by vadfa 5y ago
Why is it that nobody seems to be able to spell the word "fuchsia"?
- omnicognate 5y agoBecause it's an unusual spelling. It's a latinisation of the German surname Fuchs (after the botanist Leonhart Fuchs) and is neither pronounced consistently with the surname (Fooks) nor spelled consistently with other words containing the same "sh" phoneme rendered as "sch". People will never reliably spell it right, so you have to wonder whether it's a great choice of name for an OS.
- jhasse 5y agoIt isn't only a German surname but the German word for fox.
- tgb 5y agoEven Google misspells it: https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ https://blog.xkcd.com/2010/05/03/color-survey-results/ I checked the other day and it's still true.