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[-] Repelle@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago

Aluminum is one where I think Americans have it correct. The British chemist who isolated it wanted to call it alumium, but it didn’t fit with the Latin-derived naming schemes of elements used at the time. Someone else suggested “aluminium”, where as the guy who isolated it went with “Aluminum”. So I say we stick with aluminum, or go to alumium cuz it sounds cool.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

alumium sounds like onions

[-] hondacivic@lem.sabross.xyz 1 points 5 months ago

"Alumium" would definitely be more correct than "aluminum", since it's spelled "aluminium" in the vast majority of languages across the world.

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