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Lol all to do with accents I guess. could be
Al le min eye um......lol cher "MRH" mthecarpenterATxcelcoDOTonDOTca wrote in message ... "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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"The YarnWright" wrote in message ... "Carey N." wrote in message news:ciw2f.1717$vi2.904@trndny04... "The YarnWright" wrote in message ... how about an upsidedown ten ant? jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez louise! running and ducking Noreen That *might* be me while ROFLMAO ! ;-)) -- Carey in MA (will be following Noreen when I regain my feet....) Ok, we've heard of slum-lords, what about a slumtenant? TIme to stop, I'm making myself sick from whooping laughter, Carey! Hugs, Noreen My, you went in a different direction. My mind was looking at the "ten-ant" part of the word, and wondering if any or all of the previously mentioned were just about as popular *as* ten ants? ;-)) -- Carey (still giggling quite giddily....) |
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Of-ten.
Hugs, Katherine Norma Woods wrote: ok, here's another one! Often. How do you pronounce it? Off-Ten, or Offen? I was taught Off-en. But my daughter learned Off-ten in school. 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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I think so, Gwen, since my father - who was definitely NOT an Aussie -
pronounced it the same way. Katherine Gwendoline Kelly wrote: Katherine I would like to say that is a bit of the Aussie coming out but I also think this is the Canadian way too is it not? God bless Gwen "Katherine" wrote in message ... Shillelagh wrote: "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) How do you get an "r" in "Colonel"??? Same thing. Oh, and my father, sister, and son were all in the military and they all pronounced if "leftenant". Katherine |
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LOL Or of mother being stubborn. I remember years later, she refused to sing
"Adeste Fidelis" in English. Katherine Gwendoline Kelly wrote: Katherine, a case of "mother know best " says i with a grin God Bless Gwen "Katherine" wrote in message ... 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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Same in Newfoundland - a fishing province.
Katherine The YarnWright wrote: And NAVY terms: Boatswain is pronounced Bosun, Cockswain is pronounced Coxun. JM2C, Noreen Yarn Forward wrote: We many of these in Scotland.. one example being 'Milngavie' pronounced 'Mulguy' Or on England (and Canada) , Gloucester pronounced Gloster, Leicester pronounced Lester, and Towcester pronounced Towster. "Gunwale" is "gunnel". Katherine |
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"Katherine" wrote in message
... LOL Or of mother being stubborn. I remember years later, she refused to sing "Adeste Fidelis" in English. I've always preferred it in Latin too. I miss when Mass used to be done in Latin as well... it always seemed holier that way. Also, when we used to have Midnight Mass in Latin on Christmas Eve, there were always more non-Catholic people in the church than Catholics. ;o) Peace! Gemini |
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In article ,
Norma Woods wrote: ok, here's another one! Often. How do you pronounce it? Off-Ten, or Offen? I was taught Off-en. But my daughter learned Off-ten in school. Off-en. It was always that way until somebody decided to go all "poetic" about the time "correct spelling" was invented, and invented the spelling with the "t" in it, back-formed from "oft". Then some people looked at the spelling and began to pronounce it that way. One of the puns in Gilbert and Sullivan depends on the off-en pronunciation. =Tamar |
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MRH wrote:
"Katherine" wrote in message ... LOL Or of mother being stubborn. I remember years later, she refused to sing "Adeste Fidelis" in English. I've always preferred it in Latin too. I miss when Mass used to be done in Latin as well... it always seemed holier that way. Also, when we used to have Midnight Mass in Latin on Christmas Eve, there were always more non-Catholic people in the church than Catholics. ;o) Really? Interesting. Katherine |
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In article ,
Yarn Forward wrote: 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. Scientific language is more or less dictated by the official bodies in different countries and that is where the difference came from in this case; the original discoverer's spelling was kept by the American scientific community because the rule is that the first spelling is what is used; the UK scientific community decided to make it "match" some (though not all) of the other names of chemical elements, so they added the "i". This is a genuine difference in official languages and is not likely to evolve. =Tamar |
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