• @[email protected]
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    271 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

    • @[email protected]
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      441 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

      • Tlaloc_Temporal
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        51 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 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”?

        • @[email protected]
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          51 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.

          • dditty
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            Because I arbitrarily decided it’s gif 13 years ago and anyone who says it the other way is wrong 😡😡😡

      • @[email protected]
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        121 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things

        You can say “British” here