Comment on Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em

Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

• Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Just like soccer.

  Look the language is ours now england, you lost the right.

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• NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Ya will Trump is going to rename it to Amerinum now.

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  • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    check out number 95

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  • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No, it’s Aluminum of America.

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• gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No, it’s was Alumium originally. So you guys changed it too, but decided to chsbge it to something worse.

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• lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  i thought the original name was alumium?

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  • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Alumina ore was smelted/refined to isolate the pure metal.

    Using the preexisting naming convention that ore->metal goes a->um, the discoverer of the element named it Aluminum.

    Later, British chemists got mad that their US naming standard was different from their own standard.

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      no.

      the discoverer, humphry davy, was english. the name is originally the english “alum” and the latin “ium”, which was criticized because names were traditionally constructed from latin roots. european scientists suggested “aluminium”, for “element created from alum”, but the year after that, when davy published a chemistry book, he spelled it “aluminum”. this took hold in britain, but the rest of europe used “aluminium” so they standardized.

      a few years later, when the word first appeared in an american dictionary, only the “num” spelling was added. scientists kept using “-ium” but the general populace went on the dictionary definition until it won out. the “american” spelling was only accepted by american scientists about 110 years after the element was discovered.

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      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        So the guy who discovered it published a book and named his discovery in his book “aluminum”?

        Well case closed. It’s aluminum.

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Stuff does occasionally change

  In like… Science

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  • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Yes, but when naming new things you typically go with… you know… the person that discovered and named it

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Well they should have called it Ørstedium then, and people could refuse to call it that because nobody knows what Ø sounds like or how to type it.

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