Don't hit me,
this is going to sound like the most pedantic thing ever but I hate how it was a drink called 'Absinth' called so because of the absinthium in it, a drink which made no sense with a pronounciation which didn't make sense or look correct without an E on the end.
And now it's so bloody commonly used companies are printing bottles with Absinthe on the front, just gets my goat. But the same happened last time I was in an industry lab and saw a large bottle of some chemical compound or other with Z instead of S'.
Sorry all, carry on.
(, Wed 10 Dec 2008, 22:32, Reply)
Well this is a ludicrous attempt at pedantry.
It is extremely common for a word to have a vowel added onto the end if it does not necessarily resolve easily.
I think you will probably find, that it was called Absinthe long before the compound that causes the hallucinations was found, and was subsequently named Absinthium, in reference to the most common place where it was found.
However, pedantry is always welcomed.
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