Uh-loom-in-um slides off the tongue easier than Al-oo-mi-ni-um. It literally has one less syllable.
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Back in my day there was an element called unununium until some ~~nuclear scientists~~ bismuth-munching paper-pushers with nickel allergies decided in 2004 that they liked Röntgen more than Regirock.
And before anyone checks, R/S were released in 2002 in Japan and 2003 internationally.
Al is Arabic for “the,” “um” was because the scientist forgot what he wanted to say, “in” means inside, and “um” also means the scientist forgot what to say and likely ran away.
Alumium
Aluminio
The only Ferengi I trust deal in Latinium.
It's the name of another precious metal with one letter removed. Star Trek writers are so lazy.
Not listening to countries that say "zed" for the letter z.
Bed, ced, ded, ed, ged, ped, ted, ved? No? Zee.
And they just love to add unnecessary U's to everything while they sip their tea with their fucking pinkies up.
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