Aluminium?

Though (should i use although ?) i grew up using Aluminium (and still have to do since it is the official one here), i am all for Aluminum (more sensible to pronounce) .... also color etc, which make more sense.

All right, let me go all the way...

<sub>You must have often thought English spelling is harder than need be.
Just look at words like cough, plough, rough, through, and thorough.
The great writer Bernard Shaw wanted us to change our alphabet. Here's
one way of doing it.

In the first year, for example, we would suggest using "s" instead of
soft "c". Sertainly all students in all sities of the land would reseive
this news with joy.

Then the hard "c" would be replased by "k,", sinse both letters are
pronounsed alike. Not only would this klear up the konfusion in the
minds of the spellers, but typewriters kould all be built with one less
letter.</sub>

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Thanks for the reminder of this classic!

(Also reminds me of "Wants pawn term dare lift honor itch offer florist a gull hose mane wasp Ladle Rat Rotten Hut....")

And just try to pronounce "molybdenium"!

You left out cough, hiccough and fought

and though.

The Ketchup/Catsup cartoon is for real, but I haven't yet found an insertable link. I did find this "article", though.

I think we should pronounce it "a-LOOM-in-yum" until the "y" goes away.

Touché on the pukular "nukular", though. (I once wrote a cochlear Ed. C. riff on this, pronouncing that as "cockular".)

And proudly not!

Yay Del, from Aus

you had a presidents that can't pronounce 'Nuclear'

That's why Pres. Bush couldn't find any nuclear weapons in Irac - he was looking for nukular weapons.

I thunk it was Al-you-MIN-e-um.

(But for iambic pentameter, just put the accents where ya hafta.)

Nay, the real purpose of Al-you-min-E-um is to put that superfluous "i" in the face of those damyankees.

--Samuel Johnson

Well at least we pronounce tomato an potato so they sound alike.

Not like you Brits who can't seem to understand that just changing 2 consonants doesn't make the vowels sound different.

Poe-tay-toe/ toe-may-toe not toe-mah-toe

It's a conspiracy. Like the game of Cricket.

Baseball is just another name for rounders.

More "hard to take" than aluminiun/aluminum which are spelled differently are the changes to the pronunciation of words spelled the same way. Further, there is a difference in commonly used word sequences.

If I spell the word they way it is spoken in this area:

Butter is pronounced budder.

Saturday is pronounced Sadurday or Sadiddy

Duct is pronounced, duck.

Soldering is pronounced Soddering.

When I arrived here, an American friend told me, "Don't, like a supplicant, ask, "Where is the butter please?"; demand, "Where's the budder?".

On sequences, where English me would ask, "Have you got any? American me asks, "Do you have any?. The sales people appear to register the sequences rather than the words. In the UK, because of tourists, many people register both, but "Have you got?" only rarely here.

Waddayaonbout. Here in straylya nowun waistime torkin propalee eetha.

Spoken in true Stryne!

Yeah ! exactly.
I had enjoyed to read your all information.Aluminium is one of those important metal which makes human life so convenient.

You are all wrong. Sir Humphrey Davy chose the name "alumium" in 1808. That is the correct spelling, no matter how you chose to pronounce it...

Rough, cough, bough, ought, though, through--there are at least six ways to pronounce "ough". (And you thought French was weird?)

"Thought"?

Let's try that again.

Though the tough cough and hiccough thoroughly ploughed him through, he fought on.

That's it, eight of them, except in USA (hiccup)

Let's all just say aluminum.

President Harding made up the word normalcy and now it's an official word.

There aren't any i's in team but too many i's in aluminium. Maybe we can take 1 of those i's and put it in team?

Hey Coach! There may not be an "I" in "team", but there is an "m" and an "e"!

There is a "me" in it, if one looks closely.........

And a stutter joke when one has a morbid imagination

This reminded me of my college days. I had two physics professors. One was from the UK and one from Japan... between a-LOO-min-ium and "no-mo-bos" (snowmobiles) we all thoroughly paid attention if nothing less than just to get a kick out of the language differences.

Did the eggnishner work?

I have to admit I had to look that one up... never heard it before, but I like it!

(and, yes, it did!)

Yeah, wadeva. You should come over and come to the barbiquera for a gobfull

Aw... how sweet!!! Should I bring the potato salad??

Nah, got the spuds. Just rappem in alufoil and ad mayo later

a-LOO-min-ium foil right???

The loo is to the left, minimum foil needed.

Coneheads and foils go well together too. You're a Guru now, plug in.

You ozzies muz be lizzenin' tutu mudge Leon Redbone.

We have to stay firm on the correct, British spelling for aluminium or it will prove to be the thin edge of the wedge.

If we give the Americans an inch, the next thing you know they will have us all measuring distances with the damn things.

Would that be an aluminium wedge or an aluminum one?