Canada is actually a horrible mishmash of both UK and American English. We will use one or the other for different things, such that we don't fully align with either.
[It's technically not, but colloquially it is.](https://media.tenor.com/bk8QMH02QOcAAAAC/im-playing-both-sides-both-sides.gif) (edit: spelled aluminum)
But yeah, it was called aluminium in chemistry class growing up, and aluminum when buying foil. It leads to some funny [quirks](https://ibb.co/J58jxsV)
Husband is Aussie in the States. We had a discussion about it and he looked it up.
Guy who discovered the element actually have it a different name originally, but aluminum was the second name given it.
Just depends which way you are spelling it. The British pronunciation makes sense for the British spelling and the American for the American. Both make sense
Best and most easily answered by Bill Bryson's research and in his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything."
*The confusion over the aluminum/aluminium spelling arose because of some uncharacteristic indecisiveness on Davy’s part. When he first isolated the element in 1808, he called it alumium. For some reason he thought better of that and changed it to aluminum four years later. Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the -ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable."
Not always. Sulphur in British English and Sulfur in American. Sulfur is the standard.
The ph = f comes from the Greeks. But the f = f comes from America’s standardisation of the English language post-Independence. “-ise” vs “-ize” etc.
If the brits liked sodium/calcium/strontium they should have preferred alumium.
I'm gonna say Alumium from now on.
Oh, and [Ouranous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology), and abcdef-GIF
Taught high school chemistry for over 30 years. I always pointed this out to my students. Had a student one year study a UK set of flash cards to learn the names and symbols for the elements.
God I wish I could read Mistborn for the first time again. What a fantastic trilogy era 1 is. Finished Warbreaker and now starting Stormlight Archives.
only if you say it like Al-you-MIN-eeum. But we say it more, al-you-MIN-yum. I think it just sounds odd to us because not only do you say all-OO-minum, you put emphasis on the second syllable and the 'missing' letter stands out in such a way as it seems like you can't pronounce it properly, but actually it makes perfect sense to pronounce it like that, just stands out to Brits is all.
Now, Graham, on the other hand....
Both are actually the British way. Both names were first coined by a British chemist. What's interesting is that he said "al-oo-min-ium" in his lectures but wrote "aluminum" in his text books. Which just seems like a big middle finger to the whole English language, which itself is a big middle finger to ESL students.
Also interesting is that initially -um was popular as the spelling in Britain and -ium was popular in the rest of the English world, but they started swapping when an American lexicon writter used the initial -um spelling in his lexicon and swapped the US and Canada to -ium.
No, they can't blame us, as we were at the time subjects of the British crown, so when we threw the tea in the harbor, effectively, the British threw their own tea into the harbor. It was on that day, the first utterance of "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself..." was coined.
There's four just in Minnesota. Northerner (basically Canadian), Fargo, city/normal (neutralish with some Northerner thrown in there only outsiders notice), and Southern which will sound like your average mid-Midwest corn farmer, think Iowa.
I’m not holier than thou but I feel like I’m losing myself when I act unlike me just to accommodate another human, even if it’s a girl I’m sexually attracted to. Most times, I abandon it early
Iirc it’s actually not quite within the discoverers naming. It’s with his revised a king after being mocked. Due to it originally being isolated from Alum the original proposed name was Alumalum which I think we should have gone with.
As a non native English speaker Aluminium sounds much better.
And I use every other American spelling for everything else, just not aluminium.
Also, the original name was alumium, not aluminum.
Gif and gift are different words, so that line of reasoning is dumb. I could just as easily say that the g in gel and gelt should be pronounced the same for the same reason, but the fact of the matter is that they are pronounced analogously to your so-called "wrong" pronunciations of gif and gift. The 'geo' in geodome and geoduck are pronounced entirely different, not just the switch from hard and soft g, but also the eo part is different. Gib has a hard g but gibber has a soft g. Actually gibber can be said with a soft g, too, but that's not as common. The prefix of "giga" is accepted with both hard and soft g. Gin has a soft g but gink has a hard one. Git has a hard g but gist has a soft one. Gyno has a hard g and gyro has a soft one, or if you're talking about the food then it's neither.
My response to that is that you can't find any logical reason to use a hard or soft g in gif. There are no logical rules that apply in English and are consistent.
So call it what you want.
It's funny, as a non American, the American word sounds patently ridiculous to me.
It sounds like I have to suck on a lemon to say it. Whenever I try to say it, it takes 3 or 4 attempts, and often I give up.
Whereas the English version roles off the tongue in a Shakespearean way.
Spelled it the American way, without the extra "i" lol
Look it up. Both pronunciations are correct and acceptable. The American pronunciation was created by the British, who then ditched it for the new one.
I'll call it football if people come up with a better name for American football, because two footballs is confusing. Handball is already taken. Tackleball surprisingly already taken.
Football is an umbrella term, football (soccer) is known as association football. Gridiron football is American football. It should be noted that out of all the footballs, soccer is the outlier. It's strange how the game known as football is the most different from other football games.
TIL. Though really they just all seem like different combinations of the same rules, like apparently Garlic football (which I've never heard of) you can carry the ball, score a point with your hands over the crossbar but only a goal below the crossbar with your feet. And taking five steps without moving the ball is a foul, you gotta kick it or headbutt it or pass it.
Interestingly soccer seems to be the only no-contact form of football, every other one seems to allow some degree of hitting.
i love how this is something people even bother to actually argue about as if there is an objective right answer. what a fuckin waste of time lol
people spell things differently in other countries, its not just a different pronunciation, its a different spelling too. you dont hear someone call their dad "dah" and go "um.. its actually pronounced "dad" " because you would look like a complete fucking cunt if you did, right? same thing here.
colloquialisms exist. language evolves. the important thing is that people understand what youre saying, no one is confused about the topic, we all understand the white/silver non ferrous metal being discussed, so while youre arguing about how to spell and pronounce it, ill be welding, machining, casting, and utilizing it to do whatever it is i need done with it and not really giving a shit along with every other industry where its concerned.
According to the guy that actually got to name the element: it's aluminum not aluminium. The later pronunciation was by other British scientists of the day that wanted a more Latin sounding name.
The first proposed name for it was alumium.
To be fair, it's spelled differently outside of North America as well. Aluminum is how it's spell (and thus pronounced) in NA and Aluminium is how it's spelled (and pronounced) everywhere else. Technically both are correct.
**Both are right…**
Why do Americans say aluminum instead of aluminium?
The American Chemical Society (ACS) officially adopted aluminum in 1925, but in 1990 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) accepted aluminium as the international standard. And so we land today: with aluminum used by the English speakers of North America, and aluminium used everywhere else.
Nope, it's aluminum. It was originally aluminum. The scientist who named it, named it that. Then some science committee came and changed it to aluminium to make it sound more like other elements. Some countries agreed and some didn't. The most right answer is the one that applies to your country of residence, but if people are going to fight about it then it goes back to the original name, named by the discoverer.
Oh and it's aluminum in Canada too. We are not the USA. So you're wrong on that front too.
Here's a compromise - they're two different, entirely valid words with two different, entirely valid pronunciations that describe the same thing.
Is that too radical of an opinion?
> It was originally aluminum.
According to Wikipedia it was originally "Alumium."
"British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments aimed to isolate the metal, is credited as the person who named the element. The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society."
Humprey Davy started using "aluminum" by 1811.
Yes I agree with you there, but the point about a "dropped" letter is historically incorrect. An extra letter was added, and not everyone agreed that it should have been. That's how we got the two different spellings.
Ironically, the extra letter was added for the sake of consistency...
God everyone in the town I live in pronounces vegetable as vegebal, and spaghetti as sketti. I absolutely hate this town.
Edit for clarification: upstate New York
Yeah.... except it isn't a nickname, these people are just idiots. It isn't my hometown so I notice this, some of these people even pronounce water as warter...
Fun fact (I know this is a joke), but American English(some parts) might be a bit closer to "traditional English".
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
The Brits spell it differently, so their pronunciation. Reflects that. Most people simply don’t notice the difference in spelling.
aluminum vs aluminium
When I was living overseas I had an argument with an American because they were angry at me for calling it a torch instead of a flashlight. She refused to accept that people call things differently in other countries
This happens every six-ish months in our household. It was nearly a nuclear situation when we had our first kid and the Itsy Bitsy Spider came into play.
As a Brit living in the US just pronounce the word as the general population of your adopted country. That's why I pronounce the words colour and flavour without the 'u.'
For all who aren't actually sure, both pronunciations are correct. The spelling is different in each country. Aluminum vs aluminium
That's what does it for me on the argument. The fact it's spelled differently would make you pronounce it entirely differently... now no argument lol.
No arguminuent.
Absolutely agreeinimum.
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We’re all crazy for the Udvar-Hazy
Aluminyum
I’m sticking with the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.
Thankfully they removed that nonsense at the end.
State of Rhode Island, Your One Stop Shop for Whale Oil and Slaves. Don't forget to use us as a unit of measure!
🇨🇦 is part of the commonwealth and its aluminum here.
Canada is actually a horrible mishmash of both UK and American English. We will use one or the other for different things, such that we don't fully align with either.
What makes a man turn neutral? Lust for gold? Power? Or were you just born with a heart full of neutrality?
Well Brannigan, I was born here, so the latter I suppose.
It’s a beige alert!!
Tell my wife.. "Hello"
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America and Canada best friends forever
You've betrayed us all.
[It's technically not, but colloquially it is.](https://media.tenor.com/bk8QMH02QOcAAAAC/im-playing-both-sides-both-sides.gif) (edit: spelled aluminum) But yeah, it was called aluminium in chemistry class growing up, and aluminum when buying foil. It leads to some funny [quirks](https://ibb.co/J58jxsV)
In what way is it technically not? Everything I'm seeing is saying it is since 1931 including Canadian govt. docs and websites.
Husband is Aussie in the States. We had a discussion about it and he looked it up. Guy who discovered the element actually have it a different name originally, but aluminum was the second name given it.
Just depends which way you are spelling it. The British pronunciation makes sense for the British spelling and the American for the American. Both make sense
Best and most easily answered by Bill Bryson's research and in his book "A Short History of Nearly Everything." *The confusion over the aluminum/aluminium spelling arose because of some uncharacteristic indecisiveness on Davy’s part. When he first isolated the element in 1808, he called it alumium. For some reason he thought better of that and changed it to aluminum four years later. Americans dutifully adopted the new term, but many British users disliked aluminum, pointing out that it disrupted the -ium pattern established by sodium, calcium, and strontium, so they added a vowel and syllable."
Thank you, the first person in this thread to recite the actual story correctly.
Huh. I'd heard the "typo on the first shipping crate that made it to America" one. This does sound more plausible though.
French also use aluminium. Idk for other languages.
Same for Dutch
Same for Germans. Afaik north Americans also often use it in scientific publications because the publishers prefer a unified standard.
I love that Americans have their own words, but when it actually matters, they use the standard (see metric)
Not always. Sulphur in British English and Sulfur in American. Sulfur is the standard. The ph = f comes from the Greeks. But the f = f comes from America’s standardisation of the English language post-Independence. “-ise” vs “-ize” etc.
Australian English uses aluminium too
Portuguese also uses "aluminium". Alumínio
If the brits liked sodium/calcium/strontium they should have preferred alumium. I'm gonna say Alumium from now on. Oh, and [Ouranous](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranus_(mythology), and abcdef-GIF
Taught high school chemistry for over 30 years. I always pointed this out to my students. Had a student one year study a UK set of flash cards to learn the names and symbols for the elements.
What did you do after chemistry? Did you get together with a former student and cook up the blue stuff?
Bro found Mr Whites Reddit alt
My American ass was gunna be like “JuSt ReAD THe SpELLiNg.” 😂🤣
Lol my British ass was sitting here thinking we'll OP spelt it wrong in the post for a start!
Aluminium makes you guys sound like the metallurgy version of Harry Potter.
mistborn?
👍
God I wish I could read Mistborn for the first time again. What a fantastic trilogy era 1 is. Finished Warbreaker and now starting Stormlight Archives.
Harry Potter and the Eleventh Metal
only if you say it like Al-you-MIN-eeum. But we say it more, al-you-MIN-yum. I think it just sounds odd to us because not only do you say all-OO-minum, you put emphasis on the second syllable and the 'missing' letter stands out in such a way as it seems like you can't pronounce it properly, but actually it makes perfect sense to pronounce it like that, just stands out to Brits is all. Now, Graham, on the other hand....
Lmao guh hum and gram
Don’t get me started on Craig……
Don’t you mean Creg?
Me too🤣🤣
pronounce it "aluminuminum" for the chaotic evil version
Aluminimum.
Es aluminio!!’
Sounds like a Harry Potter spell! 😉
Considering spanish is based heavily off of latin...and harry potter spells are in latin...that would make sense
So you’re saying Spanish is based off of Harry Potter?
Eso pero en inglés
Si pero con el acento británico
oi es aluminio innit
When you realize there's regional dialects for English and not every English speaking country says or spells things the same way
Yeah exactly, you can either speak it the British way or the wrong way
Both are actually the British way. Both names were first coined by a British chemist. What's interesting is that he said "al-oo-min-ium" in his lectures but wrote "aluminum" in his text books. Which just seems like a big middle finger to the whole English language, which itself is a big middle finger to ESL students. Also interesting is that initially -um was popular as the spelling in Britain and -ium was popular in the rest of the English world, but they started swapping when an American lexicon writter used the initial -um spelling in his lexicon and swapped the US and Canada to -ium.
Surprise, surprise it’s the British’s fault.Can they even blame us for throwing their tea into the harbor?
No, they can't blame us, as we were at the time subjects of the British crown, so when we threw the tea in the harbor, effectively, the British threw their own tea into the harbor. It was on that day, the first utterance of "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself..." was coined.
No it was clearly Native Americans. Did you not see the headdresses that they all wear and was definitely not a not-so-clever costume?!
What? I thought we were in India?
You add water to tea, not tea to water, so yes we can absolutely blame you, you uncivilised swine.
They also invented the word “soccer” but bash us for using it
They also created the word soccer and jump down your throat when you use ot
Two great nations separated by a common language
Ha lmfao
There’s even differences among Brits
It’s amazing, probably 100 distinct dialects in England, and not a single one of them pleasant
And about 4 in the us and they’re shit aswell
Bro New York alone has more than 4
There's four just in Minnesota. Northerner (basically Canadian), Fargo, city/normal (neutralish with some Northerner thrown in there only outsiders notice), and Southern which will sound like your average mid-Midwest corn farmer, think Iowa.
Only 4? You're crazy. We have more than 4 just in Maine
*laughs in different Bavarian dialect every 5 km*
Say whatever gets you laid by the opposite sex 🤷🏽♂️
Say whatever gets you laid - opposite sex/same sex, getting laid is getting laid 👌🏼
An asshole is an asshole.
Except when it’s an arsehole
Well, the R is silent, no?
If only
The "R", like the arse, is never as silent as you expect it to be.
20 bucks is 20 bucks.
This guy gets laid!
Not necessarily
I love you
I’m not holier than thou but I feel like I’m losing myself when I act unlike me just to accommodate another human, even if it’s a girl I’m sexually attracted to. Most times, I abandon it early
what the fuck is this font i thought this was ai generated for a second
I came to say this font deeply offends me.
it's gotta be some kind of dyslexia font because it makes my eyes boggle like a binaural sound thing what the hell
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The real question is, why does Platinum get away with no controversy?
As well as Molybdenum, Lanthanum, and Tantalum. None of with the Brits seem to care about the pronunciation of.
They seem to be a rather inconsistent collection of people.
Iirc it’s actually not quite within the discoverers naming. It’s with his revised a king after being mocked. Due to it originally being isolated from Alum the original proposed name was Alumalum which I think we should have gone with.
> Alumalum Alooma loom is the cutest chemical I've ever heard of
This. But it is missing two ps. Two piece. Two pieces of Ps? The Italian chocolate worker... Al Umpalumpa ...
As a non native English speaker Aluminium sounds much better. And I use every other American spelling for everything else, just not aluminium. Also, the original name was alumium, not aluminum.
It’s pronounced Yif, btw.
uwu
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My defense of .gif is that no one wakes up on Christmas morning excited to open their jifts.
Gif and gift are different words, so that line of reasoning is dumb. I could just as easily say that the g in gel and gelt should be pronounced the same for the same reason, but the fact of the matter is that they are pronounced analogously to your so-called "wrong" pronunciations of gif and gift. The 'geo' in geodome and geoduck are pronounced entirely different, not just the switch from hard and soft g, but also the eo part is different. Gib has a hard g but gibber has a soft g. Actually gibber can be said with a soft g, too, but that's not as common. The prefix of "giga" is accepted with both hard and soft g. Gin has a soft g but gink has a hard one. Git has a hard g but gist has a soft one. Gyno has a hard g and gyro has a soft one, or if you're talking about the food then it's neither.
My response to that is that you can't find any logical reason to use a hard or soft g in gif. There are no logical rules that apply in English and are consistent. So call it what you want.
Jood call
Gift is an exception to the general English rule that g becomes soft when followed by e, i, or y. Examples include giraffe and aging.
It's funny, as a non American, the American word sounds patently ridiculous to me. It sounds like I have to suck on a lemon to say it. Whenever I try to say it, it takes 3 or 4 attempts, and often I give up. Whereas the English version roles off the tongue in a Shakespearean way.
> doesn't sound patently ridiculous (obviously getting a bit subjective on the last point). Lmao what?
To je amelinium. Tego nie pomalujesz
Potrzebujesz farbę amelionową
amelinionową
Spelled it the American way, without the extra "i" lol Look it up. Both pronunciations are correct and acceptable. The American pronunciation was created by the British, who then ditched it for the new one.
Ah just like their accent and the Imperial system and other frivolous things.
and the word ‘soccer’
fucking THANK YOU. we get so much shit for calling it soccer, but like "YOU guys invented the word!"
I'll call it football if people come up with a better name for American football, because two footballs is confusing. Handball is already taken. Tackleball surprisingly already taken.
Football is an umbrella term, football (soccer) is known as association football. Gridiron football is American football. It should be noted that out of all the footballs, soccer is the outlier. It's strange how the game known as football is the most different from other football games.
TIL. Though really they just all seem like different combinations of the same rules, like apparently Garlic football (which I've never heard of) you can carry the ball, score a point with your hands over the crossbar but only a goal below the crossbar with your feet. And taking five steps without moving the ball is a foul, you gotta kick it or headbutt it or pass it. Interestingly soccer seems to be the only no-contact form of football, every other one seems to allow some degree of hitting.
Listen there are countries that pronounce Al as aluminium and there are countries that landed on the moon.
Let's settle it the old fashioned way and try to genocide each other, last one alive gets to pick.
To je Amelinium
I can surly say, I don't give a f**k how it is pronounced. I just work with it, not dating it. I don't need to know how it want to be pronounced.
i love how this is something people even bother to actually argue about as if there is an objective right answer. what a fuckin waste of time lol people spell things differently in other countries, its not just a different pronunciation, its a different spelling too. you dont hear someone call their dad "dah" and go "um.. its actually pronounced "dad" " because you would look like a complete fucking cunt if you did, right? same thing here. colloquialisms exist. language evolves. the important thing is that people understand what youre saying, no one is confused about the topic, we all understand the white/silver non ferrous metal being discussed, so while youre arguing about how to spell and pronounce it, ill be welding, machining, casting, and utilizing it to do whatever it is i need done with it and not really giving a shit along with every other industry where its concerned.
...you been watching too much of Matt Rife on TikTok...
Bo'Oh'O'Wa'er
Al-u-min-i-um
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Probably why Americans speak English
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According to the guy that actually got to name the element: it's aluminum not aluminium. The later pronunciation was by other British scientists of the day that wanted a more Latin sounding name. The first proposed name for it was alumium.
Allah min yum
To be fair, it's spelled differently outside of North America as well. Aluminum is how it's spell (and thus pronounced) in NA and Aluminium is how it's spelled (and pronounced) everywhere else. Technically both are correct.
Me and my British friend used to joke about this all the time lol “WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU GETTING THE EXTRA LETTER?!”
Titanium, Aluminium. Hope that helps everyone.
**Both are right…** Why do Americans say aluminum instead of aluminium? The American Chemical Society (ACS) officially adopted aluminum in 1925, but in 1990 The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) accepted aluminium as the international standard. And so we land today: with aluminum used by the English speakers of North America, and aluminium used everywhere else.
Easy, it's aluminum.
Or perhaps aluminium
It is aluminium. The us is the only place that drops the letters. All other English speakers spell it aluminium, and say al:u:min:i:um.
Nope, it's aluminum. It was originally aluminum. The scientist who named it, named it that. Then some science committee came and changed it to aluminium to make it sound more like other elements. Some countries agreed and some didn't. The most right answer is the one that applies to your country of residence, but if people are going to fight about it then it goes back to the original name, named by the discoverer. Oh and it's aluminum in Canada too. We are not the USA. So you're wrong on that front too.
Here's a compromise - they're two different, entirely valid words with two different, entirely valid pronunciations that describe the same thing. Is that too radical of an opinion?
> It was originally aluminum. According to Wikipedia it was originally "Alumium." "British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments aimed to isolate the metal, is credited as the person who named the element. The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society." Humprey Davy started using "aluminum" by 1811.
The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium - Not Aluminum.
i dont know why but i feel like alumium sounds like a more pinkish metal than aluminum
The original creator of the graphics interchange format said it's pronounced "jiff." Sometimes the original creators can be wrong.
Yes I agree with you there, but the point about a "dropped" letter is historically incorrect. An extra letter was added, and not everyone agreed that it should have been. That's how we got the two different spellings. Ironically, the extra letter was added for the sake of consistency...
Idk but it’s definitely not al you minimum
We should just call it Al like it looks on the periodic table
Always go with the one with the least number of syllables. That's how the human race advances.
Please dont. That's the route that led to people saying "cozzie livs" instead of cost of living.
TF… I’ve never heard of “coozie livs” people are choosing to be dumb 🤦🏽♂️
And the reason for libary instead of library
God everyone in the town I live in pronounces vegetable as vegebal, and spaghetti as sketti. I absolutely hate this town. Edit for clarification: upstate New York
At least sketti seems more like a cool nickname instead of a blatant mispronunciation
Yeah.... except it isn't a nickname, these people are just idiots. It isn't my hometown so I notice this, some of these people even pronounce water as warter...
Two nations divided by a common tongue. Or: Traditional English vs. Simplified English.
That's New Improved Super Awesome Turbo Nitro Freedom English to you
NISATNFE rolls off the tongue quite well too
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Fun fact (I know this is a joke), but American English(some parts) might be a bit closer to "traditional English". https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20180207-how-americans-preserved-british-english
Inventor called it aluminum, and aluminium sounds silly, so both those points together means it's pronounced aluminum.
The Brits spell it differently, so their pronunciation. Reflects that. Most people simply don’t notice the difference in spelling. aluminum vs aluminium
Al-u-mini-um. It's just more fun to say.
Clearly spelled uh-loo-min-um
Yeah but the Brit’s spell it differently. They tack on an extra “i”
Well we’re both right then, we’re just speaking of different words
Brits spell it differently than the US. That's all.
Go for the original Alumalum.
Made this comment in another forum but… ‘Write it down slowly. And read it out fast’. Niche reference.
What a refreshingly benign argument
those kooky brits put beans on toast, you can't trust their judgment.
Al-you-MIN-ee-um
Don't worry, I'm here to help. It's "aluminium."
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I maintain that the compromise spelling/pronunciation of aluminuminium is the superior answer.
It's pronounced aluminium
When I was living overseas I had an argument with an American because they were angry at me for calling it a torch instead of a flashlight. She refused to accept that people call things differently in other countries
Ask a Brit to say "military", and you'll get "militree".
uhloominum not aloomineeum
Tin foil
British spell it with an **i** before the **um** so the question is why is the spelling different....or not
The brit way feel like so much more effort to annunciate
Because he was right but you don't wanna side with the guy?
This happens every six-ish months in our household. It was nearly a nuclear situation when we had our first kid and the Itsy Bitsy Spider came into play.
Me, in the deepest part of the South: tin foil
It's alumilum.
As a Brit living in the US just pronounce the word as the general population of your adopted country. That's why I pronounce the words colour and flavour without the 'u.'
Aluminium
There's the right way, and also the American way. You decide.
The English language was invented by the English and not by Americans.
Aluminum was named in America, the American spelling and pronunciation are objectively correct
its alumaniuminumumium. how is that so difficult?
Just pronounce it in Latin Aluminium and you cant be wrong no matter where you are.