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For me I say that a truck with a cab longer than its bed is not a truck, but an SUV with an overgrown bumper.

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[–] DpwnShift@kbin.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But there's not another vowel between the 'n' and the 'u', why would you pronounce it "AL-yoo-MINI-um"!?

It's similar to people who pronounce nuclear "nuke-yoo-lar", those extra letters just aren't in the word!

[–] tiggity@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Nanokindled 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is just a British vs. American English difference, like gray/grey.

[–] curiosityLynx 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's also how the rest of the world spells that element.

[–] Nanokindled 1 points 1 year ago

Well, no, it's how the parts of the world that speak British English spell it, plus countries that borrowed it directly as a loanword from BE (most of the EU). In Russia it's алюминий, in Egypt it's الألومنيوم, in Italian it's alluminio, Turkish it's aluminyum, etc.

[–] DpwnShift@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We spell it different too!? I literally thought it was spelled "aluminum" the world over! My opinion may do a 180 on this one...

[–] Hank@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

German here and yanks are as wrong about this as they're about fighting the metric system.