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by dataspun 940 days ago
Phosphorus discovered. The noun, a chemical element.
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Not just any regular old phosphorus, but extremely phosphorous phosphorus!
You’ll be prosperous if you find phosphorous phosphorus in the Bosporus.
I find your comments prephosphorous!
You should tell their boss-for-us.
Preposterous!
It would be more preposterous to get prosperous finding phosphor in the Bosporus than finding phosphorous phosphorus
Reddit has entered the chat
though we live dangerous
We're held like phosphorus
Maybe it's my non-native English letting me down here, but what other, non-noun, non-chemical element Phosphorous is there?
The title of the post (on Hackernews, above) has the spelling "Phosphorous" (with a U). This is the spelling of the Adjective (a describing word). It is a mistake in this context, because what has been discovered in the outskirts of the Milky Way is not a grammatical construct but rather a chemical element.

The chemical element is spelled without the U (even in British English!): Phosphorus.

https://grammarist.com/spelling/phosphorous-phosphorus/

> The title of the post (on Hackernews, above) has the spelling "Phosphorous" (with a U).

The noun also has that U, it's the O next to it that it doesn't have.

Well I feel pretty silly now. Thanks for pointing out the error
Well, at least I now know the word phosphorous exists.
I am now replacing “cromulent” with “phosphorous”. As in “that is a perfectly phosphorous statement”.
I did not know this. Thanks for the little lesson in grammar!
The title is a typo. "Phosphorous" is an adjective. The correct noun is "phosphorus." The linked article uses it correctly, so only OP screwed up here.
Yet the article url's slug uses the adjective, but it's grammatically correct! "2023-11-phosphorous-outskirts-milky.html"

And still yet, the article's diagram's caption does not use the correct word!! "Currently known Galactic distribution of phosphorous."