I would be a bit worried that 51st state rhetoric might not have been total hot air.
25 Apr 2023
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Are the Canadians on the Aluminuhm train too, or do they say it properly?
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It was and he's backed off it recently, in suitably petulant fashion. I think the idea of the US invading Canada was always just noise to distract from other things, but even if it wasn't he's had his shot at using military force and it has gone as poorly as could have been predicted.
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Ackshully, the Americans say it better. The English went with "yum" because it sounded more sciencey. International standards go with Brit, and I'm sticking with the British usage anyway.
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We actually spell it that way, aluminium vs the stupid version, aluminum.
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We use both. While both are accepted as being correct spellings (which yours isn't) you might be interested to learn that the English scientist who discovered it, Sir Humphry Davy, called it aluminum.
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My spelling was phonetic. Though Aloominuhm probably better.
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Don't get this, if you spell it the British way with a second 'i' then seems ok to pronounce it?
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Both are valid, and the British one is the international standard. However, the US one is actually older, as Russ noted. Davy called it aluminum, after he'd called it something else. Alumium.
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Ah I thought you were saying the version with the second I should still be pronounced the American way.
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Apologies - I wasn't clear.
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Cant help but think that if barton wasn't a footballer, he would have spent a fair amount of the last couple of decades in prison. Utter shitstain of a human being.
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Hopefully he holds off for 10 days as I’m going there tomorrow.
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Rumour rather than nailed on news currently, but apparently Trump canceled a public appearance today and has been taken to Walter Reed.
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I don't suppose Walter Reed is a gentlemen's outfitters?
