How do you say Aluminium

[Tanya Degurechaff]

i say it like alooominum, picked up the habit by playing with americans every day.

[Kempa]

The proper way. There's two I's in the word, so "alu - mini - um". See how easy that was?

[Necromancer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ss5t5Q8S-Z8

[Firerodan16]

Originally posted by Hinami:

i say it like alooominum, picked up the habit by playing with americans every day.

#MURICA

[blue]

The original namer was British but called it aluminum, but their media wanted to make it more like other elements and started calling it aluminium. Americans still speak the true English form

[gargamell999]

go ask the Alcoa corperation.

[HOBO BOB]

because I have my rights

[Toad Mooks]

Originally posted by Buckaroo:

The proper way. There's two I's in the word, so "alu - mini - um". See how easy that was?

That's a good point, it just sounds stupid tho, I say it like "Al-oo-min-um"

[the gas station]

I say both tbh.

In general, my linguistic schema's are weak (thanks dislexya), so my pronounciations will be depedant on context.

[Spawn of Totoro]

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/aluminium

or

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/pronunciation/english/aluminum

Not sure what one you were going for, but I hope this helps.

[tomk1]

Originally posted by A Dog:

The original namer was British but called it aluminum, but their media wanted to make it more like other elements and started calling it aluminium. Americans still speak the true English form

interesting didn't know some: Political-Literary Correct 'anonymous contributor' * objected to the name as not classical sounding.
We say Al-u--mim-ium but original A-lum-inum sounds cooler.

*says so on wiki

[baconborn]

Al-U-mini-uhm

[😼Studio Cat😼]

Originally posted by tomk1:

Originally posted by A Dog:

The original namer was British but called it aluminum, but their media wanted to make it more like other elements and started calling it aluminium. Americans still speak the true English form

interesting didn't know some: Political-Literary Correct 'anonymous contributor' * objected to the name as not classical sounding.
We say Al-u--mim-ium but original A-lum-inum sounds cooler.

*says so on wiki

"British prescriptivists - that is, Brits who do not welcome change to the language - would tell you that the U.S. respelling owes much to "American arrogance"; that it is just another example of "the Yanks needlessly simplifying the language". However, just a cursory amount of research into the matter will tell even the most ardent linguistic conservative that the matter is not quite that simple.

It all began, apparently, when an indecisive British chemist by the name of Sir Humphrey Davy in fact coined the now archaic word "alumium" in 1808. However, referring to the element in his 1812 book Elements of Chemical Philosophy, he would use the word "aluminum", much as Americans do today.

It was British scientists of the time, however, that decided, with a beautiful level of verbosity, that: “Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.”

Be that as it may, scholars in both countries continued to use both variants of the word throughout the early 1800s, only for the industrial boom - and the onset of mass production - to bring the word to national attention (it had largely only been used within science circles initially).

Devising a new, inexpensive method for producing the metal in 1892, American chemist Charles Martin Hall opted to incorporate the "aluminum" variant - which had gained popularity following its inclusion in the 1828 Webster's Dictionary - on his advertising literature, despite having used "aluminium" on all of his patents. It could be argued, then, that "aluminum" in fact remained in the American vernacular quite by accident, if it is to be believed that the variant used in his advertising materials was nothing more than a typo.

"Aluminum" would later be accepted as the official spelling by the American Chemical Society, and though the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry officially recognizes "aluminium", its American counterpart is accepted as an alternative."

Curious. That was the story I always believe. A Brit coined the phrase, and American used the alternate spelling for his info on his new manufacturing process for Aluminium.