If you hate Americans because of this, of all things, then you're going to lose your mind when you find out about everything that's happened this year.
Back on my did there was an element called unununium until some ~~nuclear scientists~~ bismuth-munching paper-pushers with nickel allergies decided in 2004 that they liked Röntgen more than Regirock.
And before anyone checks, R/S were released in 2002 in Japan and 2003 internationally.
We say it the original correct way in the US. Other countries changed it for some reason. The guy that discovered it in 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy named it "Alumium" which based on Alumen (Latin for bitter salt)but quickly changed it to "Aluminum". I swear I remember reading that he kept getting shit on by the science community and his friends for naming a metal "bitter salt" in Latin ... but can't find a reference.
His colleagues in Britain did mess with him and start using the name "Aluminium" ... exactly because it ended in "ium" like ALL the other elements (Oxygenium, Carbonium, Ironium, Zincium, Nitrogenium, and the like). They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.
He also isolated Magnesium and named it "magnium", but later changed to magnesium. The guy just couldnt settle on names. Again, in my version of reality it is because his friends kept giving him shit.
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.
I suspect that if the US had adopted the name "Aluminium" Britain would have changed it again and they would be making fun of us for not calling it "Aluminiumium".
Platinium
Goldium
Silverium
Leadium
The latin names had -um suffixes
also:
Aluminum already has an -um suffix so there's no need to change it
Mercuryium
Platinium sounds so much better than platinum
Molybdenium
Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT
Ya will Trump is going to rename it to Amerinum now.
No, it's Aluminum of America.
check out number 95
Just like soccer.
Look the language is ours now england, you lost the right.
Stuff does occasionally change
In like... Science
Yes, but when naming new things you typically go with.... you know.... the person that discovered and named it
Well they should have called it Ørstedium then, and people could refuse to call it that because nobody knows what Ø sounds like or how to type it.
Pronounce 'bottle of water' right now OP
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.
I want this as the voice on my GPS
Lmao. Well done.
Thank you very much. And to you for managing to score that username. I thought me getting just a first name as my main account was good but damn.
This is a top class response 👏
Don't worry, I'm done now lol
😂 Absolutely zero rage here. This genuinely brightened my day! You have a fantastic voice!
Hey, one of us has to have a good day, right?
Thanks <3
Your voice and speech cadence are genuinely GOD TIER. I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours! Take pride in that
I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours!
Who's to say people don't?
I just wish more people did.
I'm fucking hungry.
But thank you <3
Holy shit lmfao
You know, for as much as I post I don't think people have realized they can just straight up summon me yet to do stupid things.
I am just a goof.
"Hey! Wait a second! You're that guy who does whatever people ask him to do, right!? ...Well then, go find my boyfriend!"
"Hey! People usually ask nicely!"
- Nier (the first one)
Honestly how it feels sometimes lmao if people ask nice then I'll do a lot of random shit. I like making people happy. If you're a dick? I grew up an island where the weather itself tries to murder you. Spite is what powers my entire being.
Aluminuminium. Now everyone gets to be happy.
Platinum
Platinium!
The only Ferengi I trust deal in Latinium.
It's the name of another precious metal with one letter removed. Star Trek writers are so lazy.
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