Things I’ve Noticed
211 ViewsAmericans can’t pronounce the word ‘aluminium’.
This realisation struck me as I listened to my neighbour struggle in her kitchen with a roll of aluminium foil, also affectionately dubbed ‘tin foil’. It sounded such fun, I almost got out my own stock of the shiny stuff to rattle back at her.
All together now… al-oo-min-ee-yum.
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allu[mini]mum is not much alluminium … have i right
I don’t know. I’ve said it so many times in the last two hours that nothing seems right any more. Obviously that’s what happened to the Americans too.
Let’s get this right. We Spell it differently, that’s why…..
From the Oxford American Dictionaries
American:
aluminum
Brit.:
aluminium
American
a-lu-mi-num |əˈloōmənəm|
Brit.
al-u-min-i-um |ˌalyəˈminēəm
Saying tin foil or tin can died 20 years ago…
Get away!
Let me hear you say al-oo-min-ee-yum
I can, We’re right anyway
Minimum without Allu is not much ha ha thats what i try to say in my earlyer post here
Alluminium is the way we write it in Holland, and we speak it on the same way
americans and canadians have a struggle with many words because they doesn’t use some sounds in their language. When I was in Canada, I had good laughs with people trying to pronounce greek words I told them
Well some things are just hard to get your tongue around.