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Topic	Words that aren't spelled at all like they sound.
Paragon21XX 03/13/24 3:56:48 AM #48:	Dark_Arbron posted... Thats a case of Americans butchering the word by removing letters, not the word being unintuitively pronounced. The correct spelling is aluminium, pronounced Al-loo-min-ee-um. The person who isolated the element spelled it aluminum, but a contemporary of his wanted to spell it as aluminium in line with sodium and potassium which Davy had also isolated and named. --- Politicians are the weeds of the galaxy. <cite>Paragon21XX posted [p:979341458] in Words that... [t:80719598]...</cite> <quote>Dark_Arbron posted... </cite><quote>Thats a case of Americans butchering the word by removing letters, not the word being unintuitively pronounced. The correct spelling is aluminium, pronounced Al-loo-min-ee-um.</quote>The person who isolated the element spelled it aluminum, but a contemporary of his wanted to spell it as aluminium in line with sodium and potassium which Davy had also isolated and named. --- Politicians are the weeds of the galaxy.</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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