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My mission: To get Australians to pronounce Aluminum correctly

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I just saw this commerical on tv to promote recycling of Aluminum, however the girl pronounced it Aluminium, where did the extra i come from?

Having been Australian educated, even I used to pronounce Aluminium (I blame my primary school teachers and tv for that), isnt it funny how Australians say so many words incorrectly.

The American version is correct. I checked on wikipedia and found it funny that aluminium is so common these days they had both versions.

Another one which makes me cringe is people from Melbourne saying that they come from Malbourne or Melbin.

Feel free to add to my list of words or shortened versions of the word that make you cringe:
Brisbin for Brisbane
chori for choreography
chrissy for Christmas
pressy for present
tomato/potato (cmon australia your confusing our kids)
Any word with 'el' where people from the south (VIC/TAS) pronounce it as 'al'
i.e talavision, talaphone, alaphant, alsewhere, alagant, etc

PS. Just because something is more common in the location where you live, it doesnt make it correct.

Have fun coming up with words.
 
From wikipedia itself.

In the UK and most other countries using British spelling, only aluminium (with an i before -um) is used. In the United States (and other places where they cannot spell properly), the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.[33][34] The Canadian Oxford Dictionary prefers aluminum, whereas the Australian Macquarie Dictionary prefers aluminium.
 
I like it when you ask some one on the Phone a question and they say who me?
makes me wonder if the line is being tapped.
 
I stand corrected. oops.

So much for my research. I blame american tv for that one
 


Why your mission? You are wrong & not "correct". Both spellings & prononciation are acceptable, it just depends on where you live as to which you use.

In the UK and most other countries using British spelling, only aluminium (with an i before -um) is used. In the United States, the spelling aluminium is largely unknown, and the spelling aluminum predominates.

In 1807-88 Sir Humphrey Davy established the existence of the metal. Davy proposed the name alumium for the metal, undiscovered at that time, and later agreed to change it to aluminum.

Shortly thereafter, the name aluminium was adopted by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) to conform with the "ium" ending of most elements. Aluminium is the IUPAC spelling and therefore the international standard.

Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S.A. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society decided to revert back to aluminum, and to this day Americans still refer to aluminium as "aluminum".

The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) adopted aluminium as the standard international name for the element in 1990, but three years later recognized aluminum as an acceptable variant. Hence their periodic table includes both, but places aluminium first in alphabetical order. IUPAC officially prefers the use of aluminium in its internal publications, although several IUPAC publications use the spelling aluminum.

Variation is what makes the English language so great and interesting.
 
Does you all realise that MS Word spell check rejects the word "Google" ?

How pathetic, Google might buy them out and shred them for the good of mankind.
 
Well my mission is to rebuff Americanisms from invading the minds of Australians.

Seems others think the same way.

No goodness in their egotistical "we`re better n you" and their corporate money machines that have failed to steamroll the rest of the world.
 
Brothers in arms! :bigun2:
 
Re:your mission: To get americans to pronounce Buoy correctly

Ok then can you get the yanks to pronounce buoy properly?

BOOEE...

gets my goolies!

 

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Australia -Orstraeya, Austraeya, Astralia or just Stralia or even Straya maaaaaaate, there are several mutilations of this one
 
waz said:
(cmon australia your confusing our kids)
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And I'm on a mission to educate people to use 'you're' and 'your' properly.
It's not that hard, same goes for there and their, but I might be asking too much with that one.
 
waz said:
Any word with 'el' where people from the south (VIC/TAS) pronounce it as 'al'
i.e talavision, talaphone, alaphant, alsewhere, alagant, etc
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Must be a Vic thing since I've never heard it living in Tas.

The Abt Railway now has a new name (West Coast Wilderness Railway) partly because so many people from outside the state couldn't pronounce Abt correctly.

And I've never heard anyone from outside of Tas pronounce Sorell (a town) correctly.
 
Why go to all the bother of pronouncing it...

Just say "Tinny" any OZZIE knows what that is... Aluminum
 
SenTineL said:
And I'm on a mission to educate people to use 'you're' and 'your' properly.
It's not that hard, same goes for there and their and they're, but I might be asking too much with that one.
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Oh those drive me bonkers, even though I sometimes make the same mistake.

It interrupts the flow of reading when you continuously have to interpret incorrect meanings all the time.

The other one that causes meltdown is sort and sought.

There is also a big argument over apostrophes over here. I must admit to being an apostrophe militant as well. (But still screw up there too )
 
It's starting to piss me right off when I hear people say "whats dooin" ?

is it meant to be like "what are you doing"

I guess its some teenager thing.
 
I honestly thought the original post was a troll!
 
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