IKR I’m so glad I can pronounce Aluminum the right way.
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Garbanzo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Two punches for calling it Aluminium
bazus1@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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Garbanzo@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Two punches for calling it Aluminium
IKR I’m so glad I can pronounce Aluminum the right way.
abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Us Americans are too excited about making stuff with our Uh-loo-min-um that we just skip pronouncing some of the vowels
VonCesaw@lemmy.world [bot] 1 month 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
lud@lemm.ee 1 month ago
And thanks for that. Aluminum is a stupid as name.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
As opposed to “Platinium”
Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 5 weeks ago
Tantalium
hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month 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.
Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 weeks 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.
mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 weeks ago
You can say “British” here
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Let me guess: you pronounce GIF as Jif just because the creator is a peanut butter obsessed weirdo who couldn’t pronounce “graphics”?
PoopingCough@lemmy.world 1 month ago
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.
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
'MINUM!