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Airframes · Dec 7, 2020

Bt f w ddn't s vwls t wuld lkk lk ths ...... and we'd sound like Daleks !
Using vowels also makes it more colourful - although I don't know what colour vowels are ...................

herman1rg · Dec 7, 2020

And don't even mention "aluminum".........

It's ALUMINIUM

Crimea_River · Dec 7, 2020

Airframes said:
Using vowels also makes it more colourful - although I don't know what colour vowels are ...................

Vowels are Puce, Zaffre, and Incarnadine, as everyone knows Terry.

Wurger · Dec 7, 2020

herman1rg said:
And don't even mention "aluminum".........

It's ALUMINIUM

But ALUMINIUM can't be painted. Any colour can't stick it and peels off easily.

Marcel · Dec 7, 2020

herman1rg said:
And don't even mention "aluminum".........

It's ALUMINIUM

I, as a dutchman can confirm.

Dana Bell · Dec 7, 2020

herman1rg said:
And don't even mention "aluminum".........

It's ALUMINIUM

Don't blame us Yanks - it was a Brit that caused all the confusion. In the mid-1800s Chemist Sir Humphry Davy identified (but didn't isolate) the metal to be found in alum. He initially named the metal ALUMIUM, but soon changed the name to ALUMINUM. Some time later, his friends in the Royal Society convinced him that the suffix "-ium" was a more appropriate ending for any metal on the periodic chart - thus ALUMINIUM was born. No one made much use of the ALUMIUM name, but the two latter names both saw use in America. It wasn't until the 1920s that the American Chemical Society was asked to standardize a name. Since the earlier ALUMINUM was already widely used in the US, that became the American standard. (But it was the Brits who had all the trouble making up their minds in the first place!)

We should count ourselves lucky. One of the first to electrically isolate aluminum was a Frenchman - if he had to honor of naming the metal, we'd all have many more silent letters to contend with...

Cheers,

Dana

fubar57 · Dec 7, 2020

Kuller

Crimea_River · Dec 7, 2020

Ah yes, the northern BC spelling.

Dana Bell said:
....Some time later, his friends in the Royal Society convinced him that the suffix "-ium" was a more appropriate ending for any metal on the periodic chart.....

As in Silverium, Goldium, Ironium, Leadium.......

vikingBerserker · Dec 7, 2020

Crimea_River said:
Ah yes, the northern BC spelling.

As in Silverium, Goldium, Ironium, Leadium.......

Don't you mean Siluverium, Gouldium, Irouniom, Leaudium?

Airframes · Dec 7, 2020

But we still don't know what bl**dy colourium ..............................

SaparotRob · Dec 7, 2020

Airframes said:
Bt f w ddn't s vwls t wuld lkk lk ths ...... and we'd sound like Daleks !
Using vowels also makes it more colourful - although I don't know what colour vowels are ...................

Maybe we can spell aluminum in Welsh?

SaparotRob · Dec 7, 2020

It really is aluminum. That's what the predictive spelling function on my iPhone spells.

at6 · Dec 7, 2020

SaparotRob said:
Maybe we can spell aluminum in Welsh?

Please don't. It's hard enough trying to figure out what they are saying.

Crimea_River · Dec 7, 2020

The Welsh would spell aluminum with four L's, plus some R's and W's thrown in.

SaparotRob · Dec 7, 2020

Need more consonants.

Crimea_River · Dec 7, 2020

Yep. Yellow ones.

special ed · Dec 7, 2020

All yellow or just Yellow nosed

Crimea_River · Dec 7, 2020

Yellow nose, sharp demarcation.

vikingBerserker · Dec 8, 2020

FINALLY, after 2,418 posts we've made a group decision: "Consonants are Yellow"!

Crimea_River · Dec 8, 2020

Just the noses. We haven't figured out what the rest of the letters look like.

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