Comment on What the hell! Let's all just go crazy!

EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  aluminum? It’s spelled straightforward phonetically. How could anybody botch that?

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  • maccentric@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Ask the Brits

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    • ME0x01@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well have you ever thought of maybe, just maybe, it’s spelled as Aluminium

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  • tygerprints@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    British pronounce it, "Alum-inium." With an extra I in it. I think because it cheeses off the rest of us.

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  • EmperorHenry@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The way british people say is “Al-yoo-min-ee-um” Instead of the correct way “ah-loo-min-um”

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    • BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Both say it how it’s spelt, it’s just spelt differently in British and American English.

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    • Vuraniute@thelemmy.club ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      correct

      they’re different dialects, they’re both correct

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