I hope most Americans are aware that...

[Drako]

404 - Platinium not found?

You must have missed my previous post:

lanthanum, molybdenum, platinum, tantalum, argentum, aurum, cuprum, ferrum, hydrargyrum, plumbum, and stannum

But as he pointed out, these are not English derived words.

 

[Snock514]

Inb4 trollbeard!

 

[Red Squirrel]

Yes people, it's colour not color. 😛

There's another one that always drives me nuts, can't think of it now. Oh, not really a spelling thing, but why do americans still use the imperial system? Metric makes more sense and is easier to measure with, and often more accurate. For temperature, it makes more sense too. 0 is freezing point 100 is boiling, nice round numbers.

And yeah, Aluminium makes more sense then Aluminum because it's how you pronounce it.

 

[rh71]

the british use a roundabout way to say words. Americans improved upon it. Simple observation.

 

[ElFenix]

the british use a roundabout way to say words. Americans improved upon it. Simple observation.

brits and their roundabouts...

 

[bobdole369]

The only British spelling variation that annoys me is "shite".

I like arse, and (the proper way) aluminium. Aluminum is incorrect. Mostly because it annoys the everloving shit out of my wife to hear me say "al-you-min-ee-um", or even "mee-thane"

 

[AstroManLuca]

You can fix the underlined words by adding them to the spell checker but it's gods way of reminding you that you are doing it wrong. 😉

Or you can fix it by selecting the proper language, in your case English (UK). Not all programs will have that option though.

 

[halik]

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.

It wasn't its discovere that changed it, but some jackass brit literature critic that did that. Also why I refuse to use the long form.

Davy settled on aluminum by the time he published his 1812 book Chemical Philosophy: "This substance appears to contain a peculiar metal, but as yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state, though alloys of it with other metalline substances have been procured sufficiently distinct to indicate the probable nature of alumina."[63] But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, in a review of Davy's book, objected to aluminum and proposed the name aluminium, "for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound."[64]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology

 

[SunnyD]

I hope most brits are aware:

Most americans don't give a shit about how brits spell.

 

[TheSlamma]

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.

Forget the metals, I wanna know how they spell fluoride 😛

 

[Venix]

And yeah, Aluminium makes more sense then Aluminum because it's how you pronounce it.

Are you suggesting that "aluminum" and "aluminium" are pronounced the same? Because they aren't. They're both pronounced like they're spelled.

 

[Doppel]

In England that's fine. If you are in the US adopt the superior way to spell it, without the superfluous u. Also, cars rest on tires, not tyres. And torches burn, the things with batteries are flashlights.

 

[Arkaign]

Hah, no country has a monopoly on fat/ugly/unhealthy people.

I love how the 'example' pic for the US has a normal-looking woman in the background with her face blurred out.

This seems to be a more typical 20-something around my part of town, this is one of my friends here in the area, and she's the mother of a 2-year-old as well 🙂

 

[Red Squirrel]

Are you suggesting that "aluminum" and "aluminium" are pronounced the same? Because they aren't. They're both pronounced like they're spelled.

That's what I'm saying. When you say Aluminium, it sounds like that spelling. so why spell it the other way?

 

[PlasmaBomb]

I never knew...

 

[PlasmaBomb]

Aluminium always annoys me :twisted:

It's Aluminum you bloody wankers!

IUPAC says you are wrong...

13 Al Aluminium 26.9815386(8)

 

[bobdole369]

That's what I'm saying. When you say Aluminium, it sounds like that spelling. so why spell it the other way?

Have you EVER heard someone speak? When someone (specifically from the yachting world, whom I've had a ton of exposure, where lots of folks are from Australia, NZ, South Africa, and various parts of Europe, including Ireland and GB) - they ALL say it "al-you-min-nee-um". Not "al-oo-min-num".

I've also been to the UK and that is how I've heard it said as well.

Us yanks are just lazy I guess. We don't like to exercise our mouths unless we want to sue someone or suckle at the government teat.

 

[brblx]

the general problem is when you see stupid americans and/or normal canadians who want to use british spellings. blame them, brits.

 

[zokudu]

That's what I'm saying. When you say Aluminium, it sounds like that spelling. so why spell it the other way?

Because its pronounced Aluminum and thats how its discoverer named it.

 

[Venix]

That's what I'm saying. When you say Aluminium, it sounds like that spelling. so why spell it the other way?

I honestly have no idea what you're even trying to say here. As I said before, the words are spelled and pronounced differently:

Aluminium: Al-you-min-ee-um
Aluminum: Al-oo-min-um

I don't see anything in either spelling or pronounciation that makes one an inherently more logical choice. They're both spelled like they're pronounced.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

No, because those conventions are Spanish.

English spellings however, came from English people in England speaking English.

Also every English colony including Canada and Australia spell words this way.

I dont speak English, I speak 'merican

 

[fatpat268]

Us yanks are just lazy I guess. We don't like to exercise our mouths unless we want to sue someone or suckle at the government teat.

Now you can't say that when, depending on the dialect, Brits can't be bothered to actually pronounce an entire word sometimes.

 

[Paladin3]

As I'm reading this thread I can hear Brad Pitt speaking Pikey in my head. I've got no idea what he is saying, but I can here it. Anyone else?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Have you EVER heard someone speak? When someone (specifically from the yachting world, whom I've had a ton of exposure, where lots of folks are from Australia, NZ, South Africa, and various parts of Europe, including Ireland and GB) - they ALL say it "al-you-min-nee-um". Not "al-oo-min-num".

I've also been to the UK and that is how I've heard it said as well.

Us yanks are just lazy I guess. We don't like to exercise our mouths unless we want to sue someone or suckle at the government teat.

Exactly, that's what I'm saying. So Aluminium is the right spelling, because that's how it's pronounced. Aluminum is the wrong way to spell, or say it.

 

[gorcorps]

you lost, get over it