Latintos

Latintos stands for "language transformations in texts and open sources." The LATINTOS BLOG highlights different spellings and different meanings of words, phrases and abbreviations as well as their origin. Latintos compares words in different contexts and different languages including scientific and formal languages. Further, name construction is analyzed and applications of systematic names and nomenclature systems are monitored.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Naming a flu: from 'swine flu' to '2009 H1N1 flu'

In April 2009 , a flu outbreak in Mexico City, spreading into other areas and countries, made headlines. In the beginning, this flu was gene...

Friday, April 10, 2009

The adjectives alternate and alternative

The adjectives alternate and alternative may look and sound similar, but have different meanings: alternate : occurring in a successive o...

Ph vs. pH

Upper and lower case is often critical. In chemistry, the symbol Ph is frequently used to represent a phenyl group, whereas pH stands for...

Thursday, April 9, 2009

steric, sterical and sterically

The words steric and sterical are both adjectives , having the same meaning: relating to the spatial arrangement of atoms and groups in a ...

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

pasteurisation vs. pasteurization

English spelling: pasteurisation American spelling: pasteurization This differently spelled name for the process that slows microbial growth...

liquefy or liquify

The words liquefy and liquify are different spellings of a verb with the following meaning: to turn a material into the liquid state. Comm...

behaviour vs. behavior

English spelling: behaviour American spelling: behavior The difference in spelling carries over to derived words and phrases. For example: ...

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