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Its our {censored}ing language, so go {censored} yourself if you think were pronouncing it wrong.


Your the ones that {censored} it up, not us, we're ENGLISH speaking in the ENGLISH language.


When you invent your own language, you can tell me how to pronounce it.


:cop:

 

no speak-a da english

 

 

we speak 'Muracan 'round these parts...

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To be fair, they spell it "Aluminium"


Americans (and Canadians) don't include the second "i"

 

 

I can see how it could be Uh-Loo-Min-Eee-Uhm...but, if you ever watch Top Gear, you'll understand my frustration. They just completely butcher the word.

 

The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which British chemist and inventor Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from his journal Philosophical Transactions: "Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium."[29]

 

By 1812, Davy had settled on aluminum. He wrote in the journal Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state."[30] But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."[31]

 

The -ium suffix had the advantage of conforming to the precedent set in other newly discovered elements of the time: potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all of which Davy had isolated himself). Nevertheless, -um spellings for elements were not unknown at the time, as for example platinum, known to Europeans since the sixteenth century, molybdenum, discovered in 1778, and tantalum, discovered in 1802.

 

Americans adopted -ium to fit the standard form of the periodic table of elements, for most of the nineteenth century, with aluminium appearing in Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In 1892, however, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents[26] he filed between 1886 and 1903.[32] It has consequently been suggested that the spelling reflects an easier to pronounce word with one fewer syllable, or that the spelling on the flier was a mistake. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.

 

In 1926, the American Chemical Society officially decided to use aluminum in its publications; American dictionaries typically label the spelling aluminium as a British variant.

 

 

[edit] Present-day spelling

In the UK and most other countries using British spelling, only aluminium (with an i before -um) is used. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[33][34] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium.

 

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both, but places aluminium first in alphabetical order.[35] IUPAC officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.[36]

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Glad to know I piss ya off old kid!
:thu:

Matt Smith (Mesa's international sales manager) and all them up at Westside Distribution call in Mess-ah!...so
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And Bogner...who cares?? All you need is YOOOBERSHATALL!!

 

What about their factory in Hollywood?

 

And all you need to know is Michelle JCM800 2203!!!

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Its our {censored}ing language, so go {censored} yourself if you think
were
pronouncing it wrong.


Your
the ones that {censored} it up, not us, we're ENGLISH speaking in the ENGLISH language.


When you invent your own language, you can tell me how to pronounce it.


:cop:

 

we're

you're

 

isn't this YOUR language???:cop:

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Its our {censored}ing language, so go {censored} yourself if you think were pronouncing it wrong.


Your the ones that {censored} it up, not us, we're ENGLISH speaking in the ENGLISH language.


When you invent your own language, you can tell me how to pronounce it.


:cop:

 

I actually have British neighbors. I'll have to go ask them to say it for me.:idea:

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