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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.
Sorry, I'm siding with my American compatriots on this one. Yours sounds silly.
"Aluminium" sounds like something a fantasy writer would call aluminum in their novel just to make it sound magical.
You should just be happy that we aren't all still calling it "tin."
I dunno, I still frequently hear the term "tin can" used to refer to aluminum cans.
Alumium
Aluminio
Uh-loom-in-um slides off the tongue easier than Al-oo-mi-ni-um. It literally has one less syllable.
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
39 yo American. This is the first time I have ever seen or heard of the word normality... And I read a decent amount of British regency literature.
The five syllable elements are all weird radioactive things. If Al has five syllables it might make my beer can radioactive or poisonous. Better keep the syllable count on Al to four or less like all of the other normal elements.
ITT a bunch of weird pedantic nerds that hate language and don't read enough books.
