I came across this in reading current Google-news:

Oestrogen may help heart
Health24.com - Jun 21, 2007
Women in their 50s who take oestrogen therapy have lower levels of dangerous calcium deposits in their arteries, suggesting they're at reduced heart disease risk, researchers say.

Oestrogen??? I know that's technically allowable, but does anyone still spell it with the initiating o?

How to make a hormone ?

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Refuse to pay her.

I think it's the British spelling because when I write about "dyspnea," the British (or Canadian or Australian) journals spell it "dyspnoea."

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Oestrogen??? I know that's technically allowable, but does anyone still spell it with the initiating o?

Only those of us who spell it properly ;-)

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does anyone still spell it with the initiating o?

Most of the English-speaking world.

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Originally posted by arnie:

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does anyone still spell it with the initiating o?

Most of the English-speaking world.

I have heard it said: 'only the English-speaking world'.
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Well, Pearce, we've missed you! Nice to see you back.

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I have heard it said: 'only the English-speaking world'

Another quote: "I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English."
Saki

Late in life I realized that many of my spelling problems were because I had an English mother and I read a lot of English books. I tried to find an "English" English dictionary in the US and couldn't. (My criterion - did it spell color as colour.) Even the Oxford dictionary had American spellings. I had a friend buy one for me in England, and I use it frequently.
Of course if you Brits had American dictionaries and we Americans had British dictionaries, what would we fight about on Wordcraft?

Beer!

Inventions!

[I won't mention the most recent subject. ]

The fact is, we like to debate here, but usually we are civilized about it.