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What gets me is an Americanism that seems to have only taken hold in the last 10 years or so - Normalcy. Apparently it's been in use since 1920 but I'm sure it's only recently become ubiquitous in the US. The word is NORMALITY my American friends. Normalcy is a horrible Frankenstien word which sounds and looks horrible written. =p
It was the term used by the people that actually isolated the substance but, as England likes to do, they colonized the term to their standards and then pretended that was the right way.
I know someone that has started saying "normalicy" and I want to scream every time
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.
Uh-loom-in-um slides off the tongue easier than Al-oo-mi-ni-um. It literally has one less syllable.
To Americans, yes, but the Brits pronounce it more like the end of "vacuum" than the end of "condominium". So for them, same number of syllables.
Alumium
Aluminio
