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Gwendoline Kelly wrote:
Katherine once at towards the end of one of our USA ?Canada I found myself saying "A-Loom-in-um" and figured it was time I went Home !!! Here it is as mentioned "Al -you -min-ee.um" LOL My mother and I had many "discussions" about that word. It was not until I showed her how it was spelled in my Chemistry book that she permitted me to pronounce it the "Canadian" way. Even then, she continued to say it her way. Katherine |
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Shillelagh wrote:
Okay I gotta ask this - if I'm understanding you correctly - you say AL-YOU-MIN-EE-UM??? The word is spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-U-M. As a Canadian, I learned to pronounce it A-LOOM-IN-UM. For the benefit of the Canadians amongst us, Alcan, the Canadian Aluminum company, and one of the largest producers of aluminum in the world, was known legally as Alcan AluminIUM Inc., until 2000 when it changed its name to Alcan Inc. When in the UK, I always spelt it with IUM and this seems to be a commom ending for chemical elements such as barium, cadmium, strontium, cesium, ..... What is "right" or "wrong" is a debate that can on for ever. The English language evolves by usage, not by dictate, so the will of the masses will eventually win out. Roger. |
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Thank you, Christine, and all the rest of you who got into this discussion.
) It all depends then on how you heard / learned the word while growing up. I know in our house we always had Reynolds Aluminum Foil, and we always said (and heard others in our area say) A-loom-in-um. This was (aluminum) also the way we learned to spell it at school. To each his/her own! ;o) Oh, Norma... I had never actually even heard the word leftenant until I saw a war movie and heard the British people saying it. I had always heard lieutenant. Maybe my ears only hear(d) in American when it came to some words? LOL I know that I grew up spelling colour with a U in there, but somewhere along the way in school I was taught that in the US they don't put the U in the word. Now I spell it either way... but I still spell it coloUr most times! Peace! Gemini - differences make us unique and interesting. ;o) " Christine in Kent, Garden of England" wrote in message ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium This will hopefully explain all, and to be honest I've never seen it spelt without 2 i's, but when I read the Wikipedia article it all became clear (ish!) Love Christine "Shillelagh" wrote in message ... " Christine in Kent, Garden of England" wrote in message ... Yes that's how we say it, and actually we don't put an *extra* "i" in the word, we just pronounce all the letters that are there. Aren't all our differences what make the world a more interesting place? Love Christine Okay I gotta ask this - if I'm understanding you correctly - you say AL-YOU-MIN-EE-UM??? The word is spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-U-M. As a Canadian, I learned to pronounce it A-LOOM-IN-UM. We are also pronouncing all the letters that are there, without the EE, which is the non existant "i". Scratching my head. Can you help me understand? (laugh) Shelagh |
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lol us over here too in places....cher
"Gwendoline Kelly" wrote in message u... Cher wrote some actually say Al-you-minium as in Al you min E um lol....Cher That is us Cher !!! God Bless Gwen Gwen Kelly "spinninglilac" wrote in message k... Allaminyum or sometimes Allyminyum depending of course where we are from some actually say Al-you-minium as in Al you min E um lol....Cher "MRH" mthecarpenterATxcelcoDOTonDOTca wrote in message ... Just curious, since pronunciations of other words are being discussed in another thread... Can someone from England please tell me how you, in your part of the country, pronounce the word ALUMINUM please? My late mother-in-law (from Ashford Kent) used to say A-lu-MIN-ium. She is the only person I (or my parents) had ever heard pronounce it this way. The first time she said it, we honestly had no clue as to what she was talking about. She kept asking if we had any, and we thought she might have been talking about some sort of medication (like Tylenol for headaches, or Pepto-Bismal for stomach problems) that we don't have here in Canada, so we said "No, we don't have that... what is it used for, maybe we have something similar." That was when she said that it is silver coloured and shiny and you cover food with it. The light went on over all of our heads and we said almost in unison "Ohhhh, aLUminum foil, yes we have that!" She became very agitated and indignant and said "In England it is pronounced A-lu-MIN-ium, and since we speak *proper* English that is the correct way of saying it, NOT the way you say it here in Canada." Peace! Gemini |
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In article , "MRH"
mthecarpenterATxcelcoDOTonDOTca wrote: Just curious, since pronunciations of other words are being discussed in another thread... Can someone from England please tell me how you, in your part of the country, pronounce the word ALUMINUM please? My late mother-in-law (from Ashford Kent) used to say A-lu-MIN-ium. She is the only person I (or my parents) had ever heard pronounce it this way. The first time she said it, we honestly had no clue as to what she was talking about. She kept asking if we had any, and we thought she might have been talking about some sort of medication (like Tylenol for headaches, or Pepto-Bismal for stomach problems) that we don't have here in Canada, so we said "No, we don't have that... what is it used for, maybe we have something similar." That was when she said that it is silver coloured and shiny and you cover food with it. The light went on over all of our heads and we said almost in unison "Ohhhh, aLUminum foil, yes we have that!" She became very agitated and indignant and said "In England it is pronounced A-lu-MIN-ium, and since we speak *proper* English that is the correct way of saying it, NOT the way you say it here in Canada." Peace! Gemini Gemini, that is how I do pronouce it more or less as well A-lu-mi-ni-um. Is that not also the correct spelling for this ore. Els |
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In article , "Ophelia"
wrote: In UK it has never been spelled aluminum. It is and has always been spelled aluminium. I don't know who spelled it first but that is how it is here Same in the Nederlands, and depending on what source you use you can find that spelling in Canada as well. Els |
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In article , "Katherine"
wrote: Shillelagh wrote: " Christine in Kent, Garden of England" wrote in message ... Yes that's how we say it, and actually we don't put an *extra* "i" in the word, we just pronounce all the letters that are there. Aren't all our differences what make the world a more interesting place? Love Christine Okay I gotta ask this - if I'm understanding you correctly - you say AL-YOU-MIN-EE-UM??? The word is spelled A-L-U-M-I-N-U-M. As a Canadian, I learned to pronounce it A-LOOM-IN-UM. We are also pronouncing all the letters that are there, without the EE, which is the non existant "i". Scratching my head. Can you help me understand? (laugh) SImple, Shelagh. We spell it differently in Canada from the way it is spelled in the UK. Katherine Katherine, some sources will spell it the English way and some the American way. Els |
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In article , "Norma Woods"
wrote: 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. Yes so do I, but with me it is the Dutch that is coming out...LOL Els |
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"Els van Dam" wrote in message
... Gemini, that is how I do pronouce it more or less as well A-lu-mi-ni-um. Is that not also the correct spelling for this ore. Els Well Els, on my box of Reynolds Aluminum Foil it is spelled the way I just spelled it... without the second "i". But after reading all the responses, I can see that it is spelled with the second "i" in England and Australia. ) Peace! Gemini |
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"Norma Woods" wrote in message . .. 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 |
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