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nikhilesh said:
there is a British version of spellings ?

Examples: Color/Colour,Homeopathy/Homoeopathy,Sulfur/Sulphur,Flavor/Flavour,Hemoglobin/Haemoglobin etc.

A lot of people try to 'correct' my English when I spell the British way.

It's also always underlined in red,which is a bit annoying.
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If you're writing for publication in the UK, India, Australia, or Canada, then (for the most part, there are still differences among those dialects) they shouldn't be correcting you.

If you're writing for publication in the US, they damn well should be correcting you because within the US, those spellings are wrong. Just because they're correct spellings in the UK or India doesn't make them correct in the US.

ZV
 
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Drako said:
Oh yeah, well here you go:

"People sometimes complain that the American form is inconsistent
with other element names, which end in "-ium". But even in British
spelling, there are elements that end in "-um" not preceded by "i":
lanthanum, molybdenum, platinum, and tantalum (not to mention
argentum, aurum, cuprum, ferrum, hydrargyrum, plumbum, and stannum;
but then those aren't English names, just the names from which the
symbols are derived)."
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Some of those used to be spelled with the "i" (such as Tantalium). The rest are Latin words, not English words (we have our own spellings: silver, gold, copper, iron, mercury, lead, tin). And the Latin words themselves couldn't decide which ending to use kalium (potassium) and stibium (antimony).

As much as I hate the "i" in aluminium, it just fits best with the other English words.
 
AC.hotfries said:
My point is, while many people may know there is sometimes more than one way to pronounce/spell/say words, if you are on an American message board....well, you might want to not care so much. If the tables were turned and I was posting on a predominately British board and they corrected my spelling, i would adjust, or ignore it. 🙂
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I found I lost my extra 'u's over time typing in this, and other, predominantly American forums, etc. When I am writing reports and emails at work I have to go back and add the u's afterwards.
 
nikhilesh said:
A publication is one thing.Being 'corrected' by random people on the internet because of their lack of awareness is another.
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Most of us correct you to make you angry. It's not because of lack of awareness. It's because you keep taking the bait.
 
I kind of like the way English spell and pronounce certain words. I could listen to David Hobbs and Steve Matchett say aluminium all day long. 😛
 
dullard said:
Aluminium annoys me as well, but it is the IUPAC scientifically accepted spelling since it matches the other metals (those without common names such as tin):

Lithium
Sodium
Potassium
Rubidium
Cesium
Francium
Beryllium
Magnesium
Calcium
Strontium
Barium
Radium
etc.

Aluminum just got messed up since its discover kept changing the spelling.
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404 - Platinium not found?
 
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