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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
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".
Go and get some platinium and if you want to go old fashioned you may like aurium.
You should just be happy that we aren't all still calling it "tin."
I dunno, I still frequently hear the term "tin can" used to refer to aluminum cans.
Sorry, I'm siding with my American compatriots on this one. Yours sounds silly.
Am I the only one who finds differences in american vs british english cool, instead of a reason to be a dick
Let's table that discussion.
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The meanings of "table" as a verb in US vs UK parliamentary usage are literally opposites. With the US meaning being to stop discussing or put aside for later, while the UK version means to begin discussing.
This actually caused confusion during allied meetings in WWII.
Dubya would start a nukular war over 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
Oxygen-ium
I expected Walter in the meme.
Didnt excpect the element symbol in the gif
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LMAO
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
Aluminum is the original name for the element. It was changed to be more in line with the others in its group.
Like in the tv shows when they say "epinephrine", and I was like wtf is that? for years.
And later on with the amazing metal called tungsten. Why have I never heard of it?
(Its andrenaline and wolfram)
Acetaminophen / Paracetamol is probably the one I see the most.
Bendalloy is a commercial name, which is for the best because we'd hate for Wayne to burn Wood's metal
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.
Or the last 200 years.
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