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Originally posted by Tony Smith
Seriously, before you get your signwriting done, isn't the lead additive spelt ETHYL, not ETHEL, or is this a Canadian/US spelling of the word?
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Hard to say... even in the murricun dickshunarries it's spelt 'ethyl' (from the German, 1838), but given it's also related to the term 'ether' I could also see the vernacular evolving to 'ethel' in its inimitable fashion...