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The ultimate debate

Discussion in 'Offtopic' started by coolgi3000, Aug 25, 2016.

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Aluminum or Aluminium?

  1. Aluminium

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  2. Aluminum

    11 vote(s)
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  1. _Lordicon

    _Lordicon MyM Real OG

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    This is no different than asking someone the correct way to pronounce caramel.

    Is it KARR-uh-mel, KARR-uh-muhl or KAR-muhl?

    mmmm I don't really care to be honest because no matter how its pronounced it still taste great over icecream..
     
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  2. TheVampiricT

    TheVampiricT Well-Known Member

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    What I meant was - Not many people/countries use the imperial system. Whatever...[DOUBLEPOST=1472167701][/DOUBLEPOST]
    Its not about how it is pronounced but more how it is spelled.
     
  3. Lawmonark

    Lawmonark Well-Known Member

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  4. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    dangit I want to know what you originally said before you changed your mind about ONE of my posts!
     
  5. Lawmonark

    Lawmonark Well-Known Member

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    Was that scientist use metric... =P
     
  6. nazo327689

    nazo327689 Active Member

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    my 2 cents: in Brazil we say "aluminio"
    and NASA lost a satellite once because the system was programmed in the imperial system but the hardwere was for the metric system
     
  7. chugga_fan

    chugga_fan ME 4M storage cell of knowledge, all the time

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    Some apollo mission was ruined because of the size of a horse's butt, litterally
     
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  8. coolgi3000

    coolgi3000 Logician of the gods

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    Well now is as good a time as ever to post it.
    The orrigional namer of aluminum/ium
    Named it... Drumroll...
    Alumium
    No I did not miss-spell that
    But later he changed it to aluminum
    And then the British government changed it to aluminium because "aluminum doesn't sound civilized enough"

    So I guess they are all technically correct depending on if you respect the British government or the guy who named it
    So from now on I'm calling it alumium.[DOUBLEPOST=1472216098][/DOUBLEPOST]Course I bet about 20 of you already googled that.
     
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  9. Demonica6666

    Demonica6666 Well-Known Member

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    Ironically, as a child in the deep south of the US, color was colour...armor was armour, etc. I guess our school was old school as it taught us the older spelling of many words.
     

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