Comment on Aluminum

Garbanzo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Us Americans are too excited about making stuff with our Uh-loo-min-um that we just skip pronouncing some of the vowels

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  • VonCesaw@lemmy.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Guy that named it called it Aluminum

    Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things decided to name it Aluminium so it “matched” the likes of other metals like titanium, iridium, etc

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    • lud@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      And thanks for that. Aluminum is a stupid as name.

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      • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        As opposed to “Platinium”

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      • Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Tantalium

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    • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guy that named it called it Aluminum, Alumium, and Aluminium. Aluminium stuck, even in the US.

      Then some weirdo types decided they were in charge of naming things in the US decided it needs to be Aluminum. It took them about 50-90 years to succeed.

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    • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      No, the guy who discovered it called it Alumium, after Alum. Both Aluminum and Aluminium were later constructions by journals on opposite sides of the pond.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things

      You can say “British” here

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guy that named it called it Aluminum

      Let me guess: you pronounce GIF as Jif just because the creator is a peanut butter obsessed weirdo who couldn’t pronounce “graphics”?

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      • PoopingCough@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        couldn’t pronounce “graphics”

        That’s not how acronym pronunciation works though. We don’t pronounce them based on the words they stand for, otherwise we would pronounce NASA, SCUBA, LASER, etc. differently. Both pronunciations have valid arguments so why can’t we just accept both and stop being weird about it.

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  • Nomecks@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    'MINUM!

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• bazus1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  IKR I’m so glad I can pronounce Aluminum the right way.

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