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submitted 2 years ago by thrawn21@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[-] Drusas@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

Aluminum came before aluminium.

[-] Th4tGuyII@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

You'll find that hardly matters considering only the US uses that spelling and pronunciation, and the official IUPAC spelling and pronunciation is Aluminium.

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