Go and get some platinium and if you want to go old fashioned you may like aurium.
I jitsu like how aluminum sounds
Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT
i thought the original name was alumium?
Alumina ore was smelted/refined to isolate the pure metal.
Using the preexisting naming convention that ore->metal goes a->um, the discoverer of the element named it Aluminum.
Later, British chemists got mad that their US naming standard was different from their own standard.
no.
the discoverer, humphry davy, was english. the name is originally the english “alum” and the latin “ium”, which was criticized because names were traditionally constructed from latin roots. european scientists suggested “aluminium”, for “element created from alum”, but the year after that, when davy published a chemistry book, he spelled it “aluminum”. this took hold in britain, but the rest of europe used “aluminium” so they standardized.
a few years later, when the word first appeared in an american dictionary, only the “num” spelling was added. scientists kept using “-ium” but the general populace went on the dictionary definition until it won out. the “american” spelling was only accepted by american scientists about 110 years after the element was discovered.
So the guy who discovered it published a book and named his discovery in his book “aluminum”?
Well case closed. It’s aluminum.
and then scientific consensus made him change it. there was a clique of, quote, “patriotic” englishmen who, worried about “foreign influences”, kept using the misspelling, but they were very few and very much gone by the time the americans changed their minds.
Wait, so the original name is alumium? Fuck yeah! From now on I’ll go with that one!
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.
it’s simple! it’s like the i in stir, or the e in germ, or the u in turn, or the a in earth.
It actually would be a way cooler name for the element.
No, it’s was Alumium originally. So you guys changed it too, but decided to chsbge it to something worse.
Just like soccer.
Look the language is ours now england, you lost the right.
Ya will Trump is going to rename it to Amerinum now.
check out number 95
No, it’s Aluminum of America.
Am I the only one who finds differences in american vs british english cool, instead of a reason to be a dick
Let’s table that discussion.
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The meanings of “table” as a verb in US vs UK parliamentary usage are literally opposites. With the US meaning being to stop discussing or put aside for later, while the UK version means to begin discussing.
This actually caused confusion during allied meetings in WWII.
Lss vwls mk spkng sy
Dubya would start a nukular war over it.
Not listening to countries that say “zed” for the letter z.
Bed, ced, ded, ed, ged, ped, ted, ved? No? Zee.
And they just love to add unnecessary U’s to everything while they sip their tea with their fucking pinkies up.
Would you also like us to say aee, fee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, oee, qee, ree, see, uee, wee, xee and yee?
Are those letters that make the same “ee” sound when you pronounce the letter on its own? Like every one that I listed.
I’m suggesting that if you take your logic and apply it to all the letters equally, you’ll end up with the changes I listed. If that seems wrong, then the case for consistency isn’t as strong as you first suggested.
I understood what you were suggesting, it was just weak.
Americans say “zee”, which is comparable to the letters I gave as examples.
between zee and zed, zee makes more sense with it being inline with other letter’s pronunciations. What does zed come from?
Admittedly, I do not know the history of the character’s development.
We canadians also say Aluminum and I would like to be represented in this comic as a target of mockery alongside the US thank you.
You should just be happy that we aren’t all still calling it “tin.”
I dunno, I still frequently hear the term “tin can” used to refer to aluminum cans.
And “tin foil”
Platinium
Goldium
Silverium
Leadium
Mercuryium
The only ones they teach you about in the US, huh? And also not about their latin names apparently.
Motherload moment
Your mother took my load lmao
Platinium sounds so much better than platinum
Molybdenium
The latin names had -um suffixes
- Gold - Aurum
- Silver - Argentum
- Lead - Plumbum
also:
- Copper - Cuprum
- Iron - Ferrum
Aluminum already has an -um suffix so there’s no need to change it
So did it’s predecessor name: Alum
Al-Um
Sorry, I’m siding with my American compatriots on this one. Yours sounds silly.
“Aluminium” sounds like something a fantasy writer would call aluminum in their novel just to make it sound magical.
ITT a bunch of weird pedantic nerds that hate language and don’t read enough books.
Blame the Brits.
What gets me is an Americanism that seems to have only taken hold in the last 10 years or so - Normalcy. Apparently it’s been in use since 1920 but I’m sure it’s only recently become ubiquitous in the US. The word is NORMALITY my American friends. Normalcy is a horrible Frankenstien word which sounds and looks horrible written. =p
I know someone that has started saying “normalicy” and I want to scream every time
“Normalcy” was regarded as a mistake for ages and they took the piss out of people for using it, but then it gradually took over. It does sound exactly like a toddler forgetting “normality” and just making something up though.
It was the term used by the people that actually isolated the substance but, as England likes to do, they colonized the term to their standards and then pretended that was the right way.
39 yo American. This is the first time I have ever seen or heard of the word normality… And I read a decent amount of British regency literature.
Read hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
So normalcy is normality for you? Fascinating! =D
Aluminio
