Substance discovered by folks that called it alum or aluminum for literally five centuries then the Brits come galloping in to colonize the accepted name then try to look down on everyone else
Cool narrative you got there mate, problem is while the term “alum” was used for (far more than) 5 centuries, the words “aluminium” and “aluminium” were both coined around the same time, roughly 1810ish. Also, Sir. Davy, who coined the phrase that you hold dear, was British.
Tldr: every part of that statement is wrong
Am I the only one who finds differences in american vs british english cool, instead of a reason to be a dick
Pronounce ‘bottle of water’ right now OP
Edit: I changed the recording a little bit.
Edit 2: I find it funny how I’ve posted my voice a bunch in the past and yet fuckin’ this is what has people messaging me thirsting over my voice. Friendly reminder. I’m gay. And now scared.
Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT
Just like soccer.
Look the language is ours now england, you lost the right.
No, it’s was Alumium originally. So you guys changed it too, but decided to chsbge it to something worse.
i thought the original name was alumium?
Ya will Trump is going to rename it to Amerinum now.
I’m gonna take this chance to air my personal grievance with “Iodine”, which is commonly pronounced (in the US at least) “aye-o-dine”, but if we look at all of the other halogen, their “-ine” ending is pronounced “-een”, and therefore iodine should clearly be pronounced “aye-o-deen”.
Iodinium
I’m English and have always pronounced it as aye-o-deen and the use of dine annoys me unreasonably.
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.
Or the last 200 years.
