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
Then they stole all their ancient artefacts to put in their own museums.
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.
ITT a bunch of weird pedantic nerds that hate language and don’t read enough books.
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.
Tap for spoiler
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.
I will make a conscious effort now that I know about this issue and also I’m just commenting because this post has that glorious Bottle of Water response and I want it in my comment history to find easier later.
I, a man of culture, call it Alimony.
Which culture is that? Weird Al?
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
You could be right.
However. It’s the internet and I can’t read
Oxygen-ium
I expected Walter in the meme.
Didnt excpect the element symbol in the gif
No notes
LMAO
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
The English ‘stole’ words from the French in the same way half the European world ‘stole’ Roman roads, words, and customs.
They were colonised by the Normans you silly codswallop. The British retain French words because they were forced on them by the aristocracy a thousand years ago.
I remember the battle of Hastings like it was yesterday.
It’s even sillier when you realize (hah!) that -or came from Latin, and -our came from Old French, and both had been used interchangeably in English for at least a century when Samuel Johnson decided to use -our in his dictionary, and Noah Webster decided to use -or. So Britons and Yankees are equally (in)correct.
I mean we hate on the french, but it’s mostly good natured ribbing. Also wasn’t most of the french imposed on us post invasion rather than stealing?
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”.
I’m English and have always pronounced it as aye-o-deen and the use of dine annoys me unreasonably.
Iodinium
Go and get some platinium and if you want to go old fashioned you may like aurium.
Pronounce ‘bottle of water’ right now OP
Edit: I changed the recording a little bit.
Edit 2: I find it funny how I’ve posted my voice a bunch in the past and yet fuckin’ this is what has people messaging me thirsting over my voice. Friendly reminder. I’m gay. And now scared.
OMFG this is amazing
Now it’s the last one because I really do have to go.
I don’t even like podcasts, but where do I subscribe to your’s??
I don’t have the patience or a blood sugar for a podcast. Too much effort. And I don’t even know what I’d talk about…
This is a top class response 👏
Don’t worry, I’m done now lol
😂 Absolutely zero rage here. This genuinely brightened my day! You have a fantastic voice!
Hey, one of us has to have a good day, right?
Thanks <3
Your voice and speech cadence are genuinely GOD TIER. I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours! Take pride in that
I swear to god people would pay money to get narrated by a voice HALF as good as yours!
Who’s to say people don’t?
I just wish more people did.
I’m fucking hungry.
But thank you <3
You’re gay and canadian? Notice me, senpai!
>.>
<.<
You did drop the t to a glottal stop in your last glass of water, though, just saying! :P
I am indeed gay and I am indeed Canadian. Newfie specifically. I just suppress the fuck out of my accent.
Also it does sound like a glottal stop in the last one but only if the volume is lower. If you increase the volume a bit you’ll hear the T. I had to check for myself to be honest. Was listening to it quietly at the stop and “WAIT WAIT WAIT” before turning the volume up and “Ah okay.”
Damnit! My secret-keeping low volume speakers have foiled me again!
You have my deepest sympathies.
Holy shit lmfao
You know, for as much as I post I don’t think people have realized they can just straight up summon me yet to do stupid things.
I am just a goof.
“Hey! Wait a second! You’re that guy who does whatever people ask him to do, right!? …Well then, go find my boyfriend!”
“Hey! People usually ask nicely!”
- Nier (the first one)
Honestly how it feels sometimes lmao if people ask nice then I’ll do a lot of random shit. I like making people happy. If you’re a dick? I grew up an island where the weather itself tries to murder you. Spite is what powers my entire being.
Lmao. Well done.
Thank you very much. And to you for managing to score that username. I thought me getting just a first name as my main account was good but damn.
Thanks! I was very early on the Reddit APIpocolypse exodus, haha.
Same lol my main account hits the 2 year mark like 2 weeks after lemmy.world’s two year anniversary
This is modern art
o… of what?!
Pastry Pete, is that you?
… Who? Also I just re-recorded it with more to it. Does that make it better or worse lol
I want this as the voice on my GPS
!You can post media in comments by formatting them like this
!<Sweet thanks
bo’o ‘o’ wa’a
Get up, come on, get down with the sickness!
I just laughed so hard that I scared the cat. I did not expect that. Fucking hell lmfao
Don’t you mean “boddul of warder”?
Platinium
Goldium
Silverium
Leadium
The latin names had -um suffixes
- Gold - Aurum
- Silver - Argentum
- Lead - Plumbum
also:
- Copper - Cuprum
- Iron - Ferrum
Aluminum already has an -um suffix so there’s no need to change it
So did it’s predecessor name: Alum
Al-Um
Platinium sounds so much better than platinum
Molybdenium
Mercuryium
Motherload moment
Your mother took my load lmao
The only ones they teach you about in the US, huh? And also not about their latin names apparently.
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.
Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT
Just like soccer.
Look the language is ours now england, you lost the right.
i thought the original name was alumium?
Alumina ore was smelted/refined to isolate the pure metal.
Using the preexisting naming convention that ore->metal goes a->um, the discoverer of the element named it Aluminum.
Later, British chemists got mad that their US naming standard was different from their own standard.
no.
the discoverer, humphry davy, was english. the name is originally the english “alum” and the latin “ium”, which was criticized because names were traditionally constructed from latin roots. european scientists suggested “aluminium”, for “element created from alum”, but the year after that, when davy published a chemistry book, he spelled it “aluminum”. this took hold in britain, but the rest of europe used “aluminium” so they standardized.
a few years later, when the word first appeared in an american dictionary, only the “num” spelling was added. scientists kept using “-ium” but the general populace went on the dictionary definition until it won out. the “american” spelling was only accepted by american scientists about 110 years after the element was discovered.
So the guy who discovered it published a book and named his discovery in his book “aluminum”?
Well case closed. It’s aluminum.
and then scientific consensus made him change it. there was a clique of, quote, “patriotic” englishmen who, worried about “foreign influences”, kept using the misspelling, but they were very few and very much gone by the time the americans changed their minds.
Wait, so the original name is alumium? Fuck yeah! From now on I’ll go with that one!
Ya will Trump is going to rename it to Amerinum now.
check out number 95
No, it’s Aluminum of America.
Stuff does occasionally change
In like… Science
Yes, but when naming new things you typically go with… you know… the person that discovered and named it
Well they should have called it Ørstedium then, and people could refuse to call it that because nobody knows what Ø sounds like or how to type it.
it’s simple! it’s like the i in stir, or the e in germ, or the u in turn, or the a in earth.
It actually would be a way cooler name for the element.
No, it’s was Alumium originally. So you guys changed it too, but decided to chsbge it to something worse.
