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Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em

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Submitted ⁨⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Stamets@lemmy.world⁩ to ⁨memes@sopuli.xyz⁩

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  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    Oxygen-ium

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  • Apocalypteroid@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    What gets me is an Americanism that seems to have only taken hold in the last 10 years or so - Normalcy. Apparently it’s been in use since 1920 but I’m sure it’s only recently become ubiquitous in the US. The word is NORMALITY my American friends. Normalcy is a horrible Frankenstien word which sounds and looks horrible written. =p

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  • ximtor@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It confused me a bit when reading the Mistborn series. Wtf is aluminum and why have i never heard of that? Do they just call Aluminium differently because of story reasons? Did i miss something? Are the other metals correct?

    Good books tho

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    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

      Bendalloy is a commercial name, which is for the best because we’d hate for Wayne to burn Wood’s metal

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  • Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If you hate Americans because of this, of all things, then you’re going to lose your mind when you find out about everything that’s happened this year.

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  • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Pronounce ‘bottle of water’ right now OP

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    • Stamets@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Okay

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      • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        OMFG this is amazing

        Image

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      • bungle_in_the_jungle@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is a top class response 👏

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      • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Image

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      • Hubi@feddit.org ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Holy shit lmfao

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      • root@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Lmao. Well done.

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      • ReplicantBatty@lemmy.one ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I want this as the voice on my GPS

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      • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        This is modern art

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      • Vent@lemm.ee ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Pastry Pete, is that you?

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      • Wanderer@lemm.ee ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        media1.tenor.com/m/…/glasses-over.gif

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    • FQQD@lemmy.ohaa.xyz ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      bo’o ‘o’ wa’a

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      • Swakkel@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Get up, come on, get down with the sickness!

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  • Soulg@ani.social ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Platinium

    Goldium

    Silverium

    Leadium

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    • anaVal@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The latin names had -um suffixes

      • Gold - Aurum
      • Silver - Argentum
      • Lead - Plumbum

      also:

      • Copper - Cuprum
      • Iron - Ferrum
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      • lastunusedusername2@sh.itjust.works ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Aluminum already has an -um suffix so there’s no need to change it

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    • RandomVideos@programming.dev ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Platinium sounds so much better than platinum

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    • Thunderbird4@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Molybdenium

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      The only ones they teach you about in the US, huh? And also not about their latin names apparently.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Mercuryium

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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Motherload moment

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Your mother took my load lmao

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  • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨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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    • Doom@ttrpg.network ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just like soccer.

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

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    • NatakuNox@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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      • dadarobot@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        check out number 95

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        No, it’s Aluminum of America.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Stuff does occasionally change

      In like… Science

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      • Tier1BuildABear@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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

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    • lime@feddit.nu ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      i thought the original name was alumium?

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      • deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ 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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  • modern_drift@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Not listening to countries that say “zed” for the letter z.

    Bed, ced, ded, ed, ged, ped, ted, ved? No? Zee.

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  • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    We say it the original correct way in the US. Other countries changed it for some reason. The guy that discovered it in 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy named it “Alumium” which based on Alumen (Latin for bitter salt)but quickly changed it to “Aluminum”. I swear I remember reading that he kept getting shit on by the science community and his friends for naming a metal “bitter salt” in Latin … but can’t find a reference.

    His colleagues in Britain did mess with him and start using the name “Aluminium” … exactly because it ended in “ium” like ALL the other elements (Oxygenium, Carbonium, Ironium, Zincium, Nitrogenium, and the like). They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.

    He also isolated Magnesium and named it “magnium”, but later changed to magnesium. The guy just couldnt settle on names. Again, in my version of reality it is because his friends kept giving him shit.

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    • gmtom@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      We say it the original correct way in the US

      .

      Sir Humphrey Davy named it “Alumium”

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    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.

      It probably wasnt really a willful defiance thing. It’s likely more correct to say that we kept the name because by the time they changed it officially in Europe, we had millions of students across the country that had textbooks with the name Aluminum in it, that had already been taught the original name, and if the inconsistentcy was even important enought to consider “correcting”, it was likely deemed too costly and too much of a headache to change at the time. By the time people were buying reprints/new editions/more recently written textbooks anyway, professional chemists in the US had been calling it Aluminum for years. Given how isolated we were from Europe in the early 1800s, there was very little pressure to align with them on it, and so it stayed. The longer it stayed the more likely it was to be permanent, and here we are.

      But yeah, Sir Humphrey Davy was an indecisive wishy-washy namer of elements, disseminated multiple names across the world, but somehow that is our fault when we just stuck with the one we were given and everyone else changed over nitpicky conventions. It’s not the only thing that Brits shit on about American English that is entirely their invention or their mistake:

      • “Soccer” being a British term short for “Association Football”

      • The season “Fall” being a British term shortened from the phrase “The Fall of the Leaf” and directly complementary to “Spring” which comes from the phrase “The Spring of the Leaf”, which they still use despite making fun of Americans for “Fall”.

      • “Dove” instead of “dived”, “pled” instead of “pleaded”, “have gotten” instead of “have got”, etc. all started in Britain but were dropped there and stayed in the US.

      • “Herb” being pronounced with an audible “h”. The word is borrowed from French, where the h is silent, exactly like , “honorary”, and “honesty”. Neither country pronounces either of those words with an “h” sound, but that doesnt stop people like Eddie Izzard shitting on how Americans say it with a silent “h” despite the American pronunciation being, arguable, more correct given the word’s origins.

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      • hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I think you’ll enjoy this: Silent Letter Day.

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      • Wilco@lemm.ee ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I suspect that if the US had adopted the name “Aluminium” Britain would have changed it again and they would be making fun of us for not calling it “Aluminiumium”.

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  • protist@mander.xyz ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Platinum

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    • OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Platinium!

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      • something_random_tho@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Cat at a dinner table from the meme where it’s being yelled at by the two women

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  • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Uh-loom-in-um slides off the tongue easier than Al-oo-mini-um.

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    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Big words hard for stoopid murricans? I mean you don’t even have a functioning department of education anymore, it really comes as no surprise.

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      • qarbone@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I won’t hear shit about education from the mealy-mouthed fucks that created Cockney. Piss off to the pub, geezer.

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    • semperverus@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Based kolanaki in the comments

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  • 18107@aussie.zone ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aluminuminium. Now everyone gets to be happy.

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  • ornery_chemist@mander.xyz ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Back on my did there was an element called unununium until some nuclear scientists bismuth-munching paper-pushers with nickel allergies decided in 2004 that they liked Röntgen more than Regirock.

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  • saltnotsugar@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Al is Arabic for “the,” “um” was because the scientist forgot what he wanted to say, “in” means inside, and “um” also means the scientist forgot what to say and likely ran away.

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  • rc__buggy@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Alumium

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  • NONE_dc@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Aluminio

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  • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Too many syllables.

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    • 56_@lemmy.ml ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      a LU min um

      a lu MIN yum

      or something idk

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      • RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        al loo mee nee uhm

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  • Nasan@sopuli.xyz ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    The only Ferengi I trust deal in Latinium.

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    • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s the name of another precious metal with one letter removed. Star Trek writers are so lazy.

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  • tyler@programming.dev ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Blame the Brits.

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  • ThrowawayPermanente@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I jitsu like how aluminum sounds

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  • chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJ5_-8oEAU

    1000065221

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  • Swakkel@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    All my ninium

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