Why can't British and Australians pronounce Aluminum?

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Quote from: 🇵🇪🇵🇸🇮™ on May 18, 2016, 05:50:59 PM
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Sir Humphrey Davy in fact coined the now archaic word "alumium" in 1808. However, referring to the element in his 1812 book Elements of Chemical Philosophy, he would use the word "aluminum", much as Americans do today
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Tantalum?

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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably."
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like what

 
 
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Because they don't have enough freedum

 
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Because we love confusing your poor American brains

 
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The current titlebar/avatar setup is just normal.
Because we aren't lazy enough to miss out an i. Same as a u in colour and favourite.

In reality, everyone says it wrong. It's Aluminium. Aloo-min-neee-um.
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I completely forgot that people pronounced it differently than "Al-um-in-um."

 
 
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Al-um-ini-um