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• Dec 7, 2020

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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 ...................

 

• Dec 7, 2020

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herman1rg

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




It's ALUMINIUM

 

• Dec 7, 2020

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Crimea_River

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Airframes said:

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

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

 

• Dec 7, 2020

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Wurger

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herman1rg said:

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

It's ALUMINIUM

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

 

• Dec 7, 2020

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Marcel

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herman1rg said:

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




It's ALUMINIUM

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I, as a dutchman can confirm.

 

• Dec 7, 2020

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herman1rg said:

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

It's ALUMINIUM

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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

 

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fubar57

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Kuller

 

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Crimea_River

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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.....

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

 

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vikingBerserker

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Crimea_River said:

Ah yes, the northern BC spelling.



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

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

 

• Dec 7, 2020

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

 

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SaparotRob

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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 ...................

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Maybe we can spell aluminum in Welsh?

 

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SaparotRob

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

 

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at6

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SaparotRob said:

Maybe we can spell aluminum in Welsh?

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

 

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Crimea_River

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

 

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SaparotRob

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Need more consonants.

 

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Crimea_River

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Yep. Yellow ones.

 

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All yellow or just Yellow nosed

 

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Crimea_River

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Yellow nose, sharp demarcation.

 

• Dec 8, 2020

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vikingBerserker

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

 

• Dec 8, 2020

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Crimea_River

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