Lens or Lense?

[EyeFitWell]

I'm curious- I know "lens" is the correct spelling in english. I'm not trying to poke at anyone on this board (or in general) but I see "lense" a lot, and I saw it on a doctor's (OD) door the other day! My first thought was to laugh at a doctor who couldn't spell lens, but then I realized that perhaps both are considered acceptable spellings.
Anyone know for sure?
Lense is in dictionary.com but then again, so is "ain't"

[chip anderson]

Single S is correct in U.S. (not sure about U.K.) . Lenses is correct for plural.

Chip

[CME4SPECS]

Main Entry: 1lens
Function: noun
Variants: also lense/'lenz/
Etymology: New Latin lent-, lens, from Latin, lentil; from its shape
1 a : a piece of transparent material (as glass) that has two opposite regular surfaces either both curved or one curved and the other plane and that is used either singly or combined in an optical instrument for forming an image by focusing rays of light b : a combination of two or more simple lenses c : a piece of glass or plastic used (as in safety goggles or sunglasses) to protect the eye
2 : a device for directing or focusing radiation other than light (as sound waves, radio microwaves, or electrons)
3 : something shaped like a biconvex optical lens <lens of sandstone>
4 : a highly transparent biconvex lens-shaped or nearly spherical body in the eye that focuses light rays (as upon the retina) -- see EYE illustration
5 : something that facilitates and influences perception, comprehension, or evaluation <the author's own lens seems blurred by bias -- Seymour Topping>
- lensed/'lenzd/ adjective
- lens·less/'lenz-l&s/ adjective

Don't laugh to hard EYEFITWELL

[EyeFitWell]

CME-
Like I said, I noticed Lense was in the dictionary as an alternate spelling. What I wondered was if it is interchangable with Lens? I mean, are they both acceptable? Or is Lense archaic?

[CME4SPECS]

CME-
Like I said, I noticed Lense was in the dictionary as an alternate spelling. What I wondered was if it is interchangable with Lens? I mean, are they both acceptable? Or is Lense archaic?

It is acceptable,tho not the most common spelling. Ain't the english language strange?

[CME4SPECS]

Do you fit eyewear or eyeware?

[Robert Martellaro]

I'm curious- I know "lens" is the correct spelling in english. I'm not trying to poke at anyone on this board (or in general) but I see "lense" a lot, and I saw it on a doctor's (OD) door the other day!

Probabably trying to be clever. Kinda like Shoppe, Ye Olde, etc. The correct spelling, wherever english is spoken, is "lens".

Regards,

[CME4SPECS]

I see EYEWARE in trade magazine articles, and advertising all the time. There is no such word folks! At least I've never been able to find it!

[EyeFitWell]

I saw it on a Walmart Doctor's Door. If it had been plain wrong, I think it would have been amusing. Perhaps they were being fancy!

[rbaker]

Now if there are any old timers who worked at "the AO in Southbridge" they will recall that two or more lenses is spelled "lens" and a single Lens is a "len." Well, it does make sense doesn't it.

I didn't care what they called them as long as we went out for "putain" and meat pies on Thursday.

[NavyChief]

Who really cares?

[Jacqui]

Now if there are any old timers who worked at "the AO in Southbridge" they will recall that two or more lenses is spelled "lens" and a single Lens is a "len." Well, it does make sense doesn't it.

I didn't care what they called them as long as we went out for "putain" and meat pies on Thursday.

I remember len and lens. Being from Iowa at that time, I was totally confused.

[fjpod]

Suppose you have a couple. Is it a pair of len...or pairs of lenses...or just multiple pairs? I always thought a len was half a pair. :hammer:

[chip anderson]

Len is 1/2 pair for people raised in de back woods is one room school houses. Lens is singular, lenses be plural. I suppose dem folks from across the pond got Lense and lenses or possibly even lensese for plural.


I can remember that we did have a receptionist (who was raised in the back woods) that worked for us over 40 years that we could not get her to understand lens vs. len. And strangely enough she had a B&L upbringing in the optical business.


Chip

[Bezza]

I'm fairly sure that lense is an archaic spelling dating back to the medieval english of Geoffrey Chaucer and the like as those guys had a bit of a thing for putting an extra e on the end of words. Anyways im going back to work in Ye Olde Optical Shoppe except that I will be using the modern english spelling of lens.

It is acceptable,tho not the most common spelling. Ain't the english language strange?

Indeed it is, though even stranger when messed around with to include all the various american spellings and pronunciations. hehehehe

[DragonLensmanWV]

Len is 1/2 pair for people raised in de back woods is one room school houses. Lens is singular, lenses be plural. I suppose dem folks from across the pond got Lense and lenses or possibly even lensese for plural.


I can remember that we did have a receptionist (who was raised in the back woods) that worked for us over 40 years that we could not get her to understand lens vs. len. And strangely enough she had a B&L upbringing in the optical business.


Chip

And alsou acrouss the pound they have coloured lenses.:bbg:

I started to be offended about the backwoods part, but den I see where you is. :) You is as backwoods as we is.:p

[Grubendol]

I'm born and raised in the blasphemous west of California and I have coworkers who use lense...