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Aluminum (mander.xyz)

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[-] Garbanzo@lemmy.world 46 points 10 months ago

Two punches for calling it Aluminium

[-] abraham_linksys@sh.itjust.works 23 points 10 months ago

Us Americans are too excited about making stuff with our Uh-loo-min-um that we just skip pronouncing some of the vowels

[-] VonCesaw@lemmy.world 36 points 10 months ago

Guy that named it called it Aluminum

Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things decided to name it Aluminium so it "matched" the likes of other metals like titanium, iridium, etc

[-] lud@lemm.ee 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And thanks for that. Aluminum is a stupid ass name.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 5 points 10 months ago

As opposed to "Platinium"

[-] Chadus_Maximus@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Tantalium

[-] hessenjunge@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 10 months ago

Guy that named it called it Aluminum, Alumium, and Aluminium. Aluminium stuck, even in the US.

Then some weirdo types decided they were in charge of naming things in the US decided it needs to be Aluminum. It took them about 50-90 years to succeed.

[-] mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works 6 points 10 months ago

Weirdo types that decided they were in charge of naming things

You can say "British" here

[-] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 5 points 10 months ago

No, the guy who discovered it called it Alumium, after Alum. Both Aluminum and Aluminium were later constructions by journals on opposite sides of the pond.

[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

Guy that named it called it Aluminum

Let me guess: you pronounce GIF as Jif just because the creator is a peanut butter obsessed weirdo who couldn't pronounce "graphics"?

[-] PoopingCough@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

couldn't pronounce "graphics"

That's not how acronym pronunciation works though. We don't pronounce them based on the words they stand for, otherwise we would pronounce NASA, SCUBA, LASER, etc. differently. Both pronunciations have valid arguments so why can't we just accept both and stop being weird about it.