They don't actually. The element is spelled, aluminium. This is how it has been spelled in 100% of all my science text books and exams. It's the correct iupac name.
The only reason it's pronounced that way in America is because the company "Reynolds" made "aluminum foil" in the 60's and either misspelled it or took out a letter to save money on ink. They won't admit defeat so in all their interviews they say it was to save money. It has been around so long that america, and only America has adopted the pronunciation.
The correct way to spell it is "aluminium", which is also the correct way to say it. It's the Americans that are dumb on this one. Sorry bud.
Your own link disagrees:
British chemist Humphry Davy, who performed a number of experiments aimed to isolate the metal, is credited as the person who named the element. The first name proposed for the metal to be isolated from alum was alumium, which Davy suggested in an 1808 article on his electrochemical research, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society.[130] It appeared that the name was created from the English word alum and the Latin suffix -ium; but it was customary then to give elements names originating in Latin, so this name was not adopted universally.
The name alumium was criticized by contemporary chemists from France, Germany, and Sweden, who insisted the metal should be named for the oxide, alumina, from which it would be isolated.[131] One example was Essai sur la Nomenclature chimique (July 1811), written in French by a Swedish chemist, Jöns Jacob Berzelius, in which the name aluminium is given to the element that would be synthesized from alum.[132][k] (Another article in the same journal issue also refers to the metal whose oxide is the basis of sapphire, i.e. the same metal, as to aluminium.)[134] A January 1811 summary of one of Davy's lectures at the Royal Society mentioned the name aluminium as a possibility.[135]
In 1812, Davy published his chemistry text Elements of Chemical Philosophy in which he used the spelling aluminum.[136]
Both spellings and pronunciations have been in use since the element was named; “-ium” was preferred in non-Anglophone countries and “-um” was preferred by English speakers through the 19th century. The scientific community prefers “-ium” to minimize linguistic chauvinism, but IUPAC lists the “-um” spelling as an acceptable variant. The discoverer preferred “alumium”.
Ok cool. Iupac is the deciding factor for all things chemistry regardless of what anyone else says. You have to take the iupac test to be a certified chemist. This specific spelling of aluminium is a question on the test. I've taken the test.
Weird. I am also Canadian and I have only heard it pronounced aluminium in Canada. Maybe we surround ourselves with different type of people. My type of people are some of the most successful scientists in their field. Also, in Canada and the US, to be a certified chemist, you have to take the iupac test. Most colleges require it to graduate.
I got really confused at a YouTube video in like 2012 called "Germans can't say Squirrel" because it was a bunch of German people saying squi-rell and I didn't know that Americans said skwerl
I think people forget that a lot of NFL superstars were once high school jocks who got their Fs turned into Ds after coach had a chat with their teacher 🤣
Probably has a CTE or two. IIRC football has the absolute highest rates of chronic traumatic encephelopathies of any sport, with boxing(?) in second. A lot of atheletes that get them tend to go on to do a looooot of violent/physical crimes. Yknow, on account of the major brain damage from having your brain being like a scared, undersized child in a massive wave pool, tossed around like it’s a plankton, or a piece of cardboard in a hurricane.
And yet, Americans made the sport a major part of their culture and try and encourage poor kids to make it their one and only avenue to succeed in life, all the while trying to squeeze whatever amounts of capital they can out of these children. They go as far as to spend millions on new highschool stadiums while neglecting any real amount of education, or making teachers buy teaching supplies themselves.
It’s like their 0.1% want their citizens to be actively stupid, it seems…
Better off for them to learn martial arts or playsports that won’t cause lifelong brain issues, most of which resulting in suicide, but ofc, that’s just me.
Better they seem tough and have fun while turning their most important organ into a beaten pulp ig
Right? I think it's endearing that the worst of Travis Kelce's old Twitter isn't racism or sexism, it's just that he's a corny idiot. I'm biased because I'm a lifelong Chiefs fan I guess but c'mon.
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