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Substance discovered by folks that called it alum or aluminum for literally five centuries then the Brits come galloping in to colonize the accepted name then try to look down on everyone else

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.

Am I the only one who finds differences in american vs british english cool, instead of a reason to be a dick

Pronounce 'bottle of water' right now OP

Platinium

Goldium

Silverium

Leadium

Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT

Aluminium is not the -ium of alumin

Aluminium is the genericitation of aluminum.

The actual -ium is of alum. The original name is alumium.

Aluminum is a modification of alumiun, not aluminium

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.

Oxygen-ium

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.

I, a man of culture, call it Alimony.

I'm gonna take this chance to air my personal grievance with "Iodine", which is commonly pronounced (in the US at least) "aye-o-dine", but if we look at all of the other halogen, their "-ine" ending is pronounced "-een", and therefore iodine should clearly be pronounced "aye-o-deen".

ITT a bunch of weird pedantic nerds that hate language and don't read enough books.

Go and get some platinium and if you want to go old fashioned you may like aurium.

Always find it funny how the French and British traditionally hate on each other but the British will defend to the death the stupid French shit we stole for our language

the amount of times I've seen people get pissed off at the American English removal of the useless "u" is actually fucking silly

Platinum

Sorry, I'm siding with my American compatriots on this one. Yours sounds silly.

The five syllable elements are all weird radioactive things. If Al has five syllables it might make my beer can radioactive or poisonous. Better keep the syllable count on Al to four or less like all of the other normal elements.

It confused me a bit when reading the Mistborn series. Wtf is aluminum and why have i never heard of that? Do they just call Aluminium differently because of story reasons? Did i miss something? Are the other metals correct?

Good books tho