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How do YOU say.... Realizing ofcourse this thread would be much better with audio...bare with me people..
I have been speaking to this lovely young lady who happened to say a familiar word to me that stopped the conversation cold....the word she was "trying to say is ALUMINUM...but her pronounciation was (phonetically) alumInium..... she claims this is the CORRECT way to say the word which ofcourse is absurd... 
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The Brits say it that way.
The US folks say aluminum. |
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 It isn't the load that breaks us down, it's the way we carry it. | |
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Ocean said: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminium
 Speaking of twits..... | |
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Ocean said: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminium
It isn't the load that breaks us down, it's the way we carry it. | |
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Oh dear. | |
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Just look it up on the Internets. It's got more pop than a Nuculer explosion. | |
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so you americans don't have an I there?  | |
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ZombieKitten said: so you americans don't have an I there?
Nope. We spell it aluminum. |
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Ocean said: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminium
http://dictionary.referen...e/aluminum |
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CarrieMpls said: ZombieKitten said: so you americans don't have an I there?
Nope. We spell it aluminum. That's silly.  | |
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That's funny
The brits say AL-YOO-MINI-YUM the yanks say AL-OO-MIN-UM I never realized that... A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon |
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RenHoek said: That's funny
The brits say AL-YOO-MINI-YUM the yanks say AL-OO-MIN-UM I never realized that... We say AL A MINI EM | |
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Aluminum - that's what those NUKE-ular bombs are made of right?
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alumInium
thats hard to say Rhythm floods my heart♥The melody it feeds my soul | |
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Aluuminum, I guess... | |
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veronikka said: alumInium
thats hard to say Yes it is and I refuse to make the word more difficult to say...takes longer as well. It does not roll off the tongue at all.  | |
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With the I in there. | |
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Basically it has been "dumbed down" for you guys | |
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Britannica said: Crude aluminum was isolated (1825) by Hans Christian Ørsted by reducing aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam. Sir Humphry Davy had prepared (1809) an iron-aluminum alloy by electrolyzing fused alumina (aluminum oxide) and had already named the element aluminum; the word later was modified to aluminium in England and some other European countries.
Brits say it right and you are wrong, even though the facts say otherwise. We're always right.  | |
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mcmeekle said: Britannica said: Crude aluminum was isolated (1825) by Hans Christian Ørsted by reducing aluminum chloride with potassium amalgam. Sir Humphry Davy had prepared (1809) an iron-aluminum alloy by electrolyzing fused alumina (aluminum oxide) and had already named the element aluminum; the word later was modified to aluminium in England and some other European countries.
Brits say it right and you are wrong, even though the facts say otherwise. We're always right. After all we do speak ENGLISH | |
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mdiver said: mcmeekle said: Brits say it right and you are wrong, even though the facts say otherwise. We're always right. After all we do speak ENGLISH  | |
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mdiver said: Basically it has been "dumbed down" for you guys
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pardonme4livin said: mdiver said: Basically it has been "dumbed down" for you guys
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Ocean said: RenHoek said: That's funny
The brits say AL-YOO-MINI-YUM the yanks say AL-OO-MIN-UM I never realized that... We say AL A MINI EM you forgot the OI! OI! OI! at the end... A working class Hero is something to be ~ Lennon |
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Well in Spanish it's pronounced A-LOO-MI-NIO
...so both english versions are fine with me.  By St. Boogar and all the saints at the backside door of Purgatory! | |
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mdiver said: Basically it has been "dumbed down" for you guys
Rhythm floods my heart♥The melody it feeds my soul | |
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