Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em

Okay

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.

bo'o 'o' wa'a

Don’t you mean “boddul of warder”?

The latin names had -um suffixes

• Gold - Aurum
• Silver - Argentum
• Lead - Plumbum

also:

• Copper - Cuprum
• Iron - Ferrum

Platinium sounds so much better than platinum

Molybdenium

Mercuryium

Motherload moment

The only ones they teach you about in the US, huh? And also not about their latin names apparently.

Just like soccer.

Look the language is ours now england, you lost the right.

i thought the original name was alumium?

Ya will Trump is going to rename it to Amerinum now.

Stuff does occasionally change

In like... Science

No, it's was Alumium originally. So you guys changed it too, but decided to chsbge it to something worse.

They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.

It probably wasnt really a willful defiance thing. It's likely more correct to say that we kept the name because by the time they changed it officially in Europe, we had millions of students across the country that had textbooks with the name Aluminum in it, that had already been taught the original name, and if the inconsistentcy was even important enought to consider "correcting", it was likely deemed too costly and too much of a headache to change at the time. By the time people were buying reprints/new editions/more recently written textbooks anyway, professional chemists in the US had been calling it Aluminum for years. Given how isolated we were from Europe in the early 1800s, there was very little pressure to align with them on it, and so it stayed. The longer it stayed the more likely it was to be permanent, and here we are.

But yeah, Sir Humphrey Davy was an indecisive wishy-washy namer of elements, disseminated multiple names across the world, but somehow that is our fault when we just stuck with the one we were given and everyone else changed over nitpicky conventions. It's not the only thing that Brits shit on about American English that is entirely their invention or their mistake:

• "Soccer" being a British term short for "Association Football"
• The season "Fall" being a British term shortened from the phrase "The Fall of the Leaf" and directly complementary to "Spring" which comes from the phrase "The Spring of the Leaf", which they still use despite making fun of Americans for "Fall" instead of their "Autumn", which Americans also use.
• "Dove" instead of "dived", "pled" instead of "pleaded", "have gotten" instead of "have got", etc. all started in Britain but were dropped there and stayed in the US.
• "Herb" being pronounced with an audible "h". The word is borrowed from French, where the h is silent, exactly like , "honorary", and "honesty". Neither country pronounces either of those words with an "h" sound, but that doesnt stop people like Eddie Izzard shitting on how Americans say it with a silent "h" despite the American pronunciation being, arguably, more correct given the word's origins.

Side note, it is crazy how many words in English are borrowed from French, even if they are horribly mangled and unrecognizable now in a lot of cases. The British Aristocracy really had their noses shoved firmly up French asses for a lot of their history in the last few centuries.

We say it the original correct way in the US

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Sir Humphrey Davy named it "Alumium"

The only reason it's called 'Aluminum' in the US is that name was popularised in the Webster's dictionary in the US firstly, and then Hall who preferred the less common 'Aluminum' spelling for marketing his new Aluminium refining process as he thought it sounded fancy like Platinum. Prior to that it was more widely called 'Aluminium' in the US as well as the rest of the world - as it was the dominant name scientifically, and nobody else used it much as it wasn't widely commercially used until the late 19th century / early 20th century.

This is all on Wikipedia, dunno why people feel the need to make up their own stories every single time this comes up, but it does make us laugh.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling

Or the last 200 years.

Platinium!

Let's table that discussion.

Then they stole all their ancient artefacts to put in their own museums.

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

You could be right.

However. It’s the internet and I can’t read

Aluminum is the original name for the element. It was changed to be more in line with the others in its group.

Like in the tv shows when they say "epinephrine", and I was like wtf is that? for years.

And later on with the amazing metal called tungsten. Why have I never heard of it?

(Its andrenaline and wolfram)

Bendalloy is a commercial name, which is for the best because we'd hate for Wayne to burn Wood's metal

Iodinium

I'm English and have always pronounced it as aye-o-deen and the use of dine annoys me unreasonably.

The English 'stole' words from the French in the same way half the European world 'stole' Roman roads, words, and customs.

They were colonised by the Normans you silly codswallop. The British retain French words because they were forced on them by the aristocracy a thousand years ago.

I mean we hate on the french, but it's mostly good natured ribbing. Also wasn't most of the french imposed on us post invasion rather than stealing?

It's even sillier when you realize (hah!) that -or came from Latin, and -our came from Old French, and both had been used interchangeably in English for at least a century when Samuel Johnson decided to use -our in his dictionary, and Noah Webster decided to use -or. So Britons and Yankees are equally (in)correct.

"Aluminium" sounds like something a fantasy writer would call aluminum in their novel just to make it sound magical.

Which culture is that? Weird Al?

I dunno, I still frequently hear the term "tin can" used to refer to aluminum cans.

Based kolanaki in the comments

To Americans, yes, but the Brits pronounce it more like the end of "vacuum" than the end of "condominium". So for them, same number of syllables.

a LU min um

a lu MIN yum

or something idk

39 yo American. This is the first time I have ever seen or heard of the word normality... And I read a decent amount of British regency literature.

“Normalcy” was regarded as a mistake for ages and they took the piss out of people for using it, but then it gradually took over. It does sound exactly like a toddler forgetting “normality” and just making something up though.

I know someone that has started saying "normalicy" and I want to scream every time

It was the term used by the people that actually isolated the substance but, as England likes to do, they colonized the term to their standards and then pretended that was the right way.

It's the name of another precious metal with one letter removed. Star Trek writers are so lazy.

Prize | Prise

What

Would you also like us to say aee, fee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, oee, qee, ree, see, uee, wee, xee and yee?

And they just love to add unnecessary U's to everything while they sip their tea with their fucking pinkies up.

Simplifying English for The Americans | Michael McIntyre

TBH repeating consonants are very helpful in pronouncing non-English words. Making them commonplace would make it easier for translators to recognize their power and more importantly know how to use them.

Don't you dare say waddling is from across the pond. Here in america, more than 60% of our population waddles about!