Hey I just want to know what everyone thinks about this. Being american, and havingspent 5 seconds on google looking for an answer, I beilieve it is ALUMINUM but what do yall think.
Poll
Is it said ALUMINUM, or is it said ALUMINIUM ?
| Aluminum | 41% | 41% - 16 | ||||
| Aluminium | 58% | 58% - 23 | ||||
| You dont care, you just want to have your vote counted | 0% | 0% - 0 | ||||
| Total: 39 | ||||||
If it was meant to be promounced as ALUMINIUM, then it would be spelt as such.
You misunderstand me. Or I dont udnerstand you. The british say aluminium and spell it like that. The discoverer of aluminum wanted to call it ALUMINUM but the other scientists of the time asked him to change it because the other elements were being called with -ium endings. And what do YOU say?jnick wrote:
If it was meant to be promounced as ALUMINIUM, then it would be spelt as such.
al·u·min·i·um
Pronunciation: "al-y&-'min-E-&m
a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
Pronunciation: "al-y&-'min-E-&m
a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
Um Aluminium is only how the brits pronounce it, and we say Aluminum here in the stats. Just like you say PoTAYto, I say PoTAHto. You can agrue this till the cows come home, bro.
a·lu·mi·num Audio pronunciation of "aluminum" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (-lm-nm)JeeSqwat wrote:
al·u·min·i·um
Pronunciation: "al-y&-'min-E-&m
a silvery ductile metallic element found primarily in bauxite
n. Symbol Al
A silvery-white, ductile metallic element, the most abundant in the earth's crust but found only in combination, chiefly in bauxite. Having good conductive and thermal properties, it is used to form many hard, light, corrosion-resistant alloys. Atomic number 13; atomic weight 26.98; melting point 660.2°C; boiling point 2,467°C; specific gravity 2.69; valence 3.
al·u·min·i·um Audio pronunciation of "aluminium" ( P ) Pronunciation Key (ly-mn-m)
n. Chiefly British
Variant of aluminum.
Aluminuminuminuminuminuminum
Both are correct. There's just one i letter inside word but they both are still correct (as many words are little different in UK and USA)
Last edited by BlueScreen (2006-02-07 18:27:45)
Well, mostly all of the people I ever heard say Aluminum say Aluminum.
The only reason I could think of to say aluminium is if you were reading it as part of a list of elements from the periodic table. ex: Magnesium, Potassium, Aluminuium.......
Either that or you just wanted to say aluminium.
Ya know?
The only reason I could think of to say aluminium is if you were reading it as part of a list of elements from the periodic table. ex: Magnesium, Potassium, Aluminuium.......
Either that or you just wanted to say aluminium.
Ya know?
Nu uh he was trying to say aluminum.
Not really. The discoverer wanted to call it ALUMINUM. I'd go with what he says any day.oberst_enzian wrote:
it's aluminium in australia too. and if you want to be a stickler for details, american english is, of course, just a mutated version of british english - english english - so aluminium is the way it should be pronounced. it's just that you yanks are... weird.
Last edited by n1nj41c l337ne55 (2006-02-07 18:38:48)
Bah if you want to get technical with languages then we should say it however the Germans say it. After all english derived for germanic languages.
isn't this enough tho? 'you wanna join the science club you gotta talk the science talk'.n1nj41c l337ne55 wrote:
The discoverer of aluminum wanted to call it ALUMINUM but the other scientists of the time asked him to change it because the other elements were being called with -ium endings.
similar thing going on with favour / favor, humour / humor, labour / labor
bah, who cares.
in aus its is aluminium
Being British I say Al-u-min-ium
And over here it's aluminium.
Ha Aluminum sounds so wrong
Eddie Izzard went over this in "Dress to Kill."
One of my favorite lines while he was talking about our different pronunciations is the war over how to pronounce "herb."
Americans say "'erb" and the Brits say "Herb"...because there's a fucking H in it!
One of my favorite lines while he was talking about our different pronunciations is the war over how to pronounce "herb."
Americans say "'erb" and the Brits say "Herb"...because there's a fucking H in it!
aluminium and aluminum sounds so wrong as shifty2k5
Here in Holland (The Netherlands) we say Aluminium as well.
I think it's common around the world, accept the US!!
I think it's common around the world, accept the US!!
How does the guy in the element song say it?
well i, being canadian, say aluminum, its the way everyone around me always said it when i was growing up. it can however be said both ways and neither way is wrong this is a really odd thing to argue about :\
i'm not going to put my neck out and say this is fact, but this is what i heard once many years ago:
when the u.s. patent office processed the patent for aluminum (yes, it can be patented as it is compounded alloy) there was a typo on the form and an 'i' was omitted. the result was the american spelling and pronunciation of 'aluminum'. i think just about every other place in the world spells and says 'aluminium'.
yay for american attention to detail!
when the u.s. patent office processed the patent for aluminum (yes, it can be patented as it is compounded alloy) there was a typo on the form and an 'i' was omitted. the result was the american spelling and pronunciation of 'aluminum'. i think just about every other place in the world spells and says 'aluminium'.
yay for american attention to detail!
why does america have to be different from the rest of the world? colour and color, honour and honor. they are just so lazy that they even have to leave out one letter
can we all say bauxite