"Norma Woods" wrote in message
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When I was in school, we learned to spell it the English way. I think it's
spelled the American way, now? I always pronounced it Al-u-min-ee-um in my
mind to spell it out on paper. Same way we learned the English
pronunciation
"lef-ten-ant" instead of lieutenant.

That's another word that amazes me. How you get 'lef-ten-ant" out of the
spelling is a puzzle. I'm Canadian, and we usually stick with English
things, but to me on this word - it's LOO TEN ANT. (shrug)

Shelagh