Why dont americans seem to realise there are two i's in aluminium?

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• Answer #1

  So, British English and American English diverged a long, long time ago...there ain't no going back ;)

  I have some friends here from South Africa and Ireland...and have hung out more lately with various accents on English than I can recall doing in a long, long time.

  It's tough, but you get used to it. I just hope my kids proper American spelling isn't ruined by their British spelling based curriculum (duck).

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• Answer #2

  Aluminium is the British way of spelling it (and how we oft spell it here in Canada as well)...it's pronounced as it's spelled - al-oo-min-ee-um.

  Aluminum is the American way and pronounced al-oo-mun-um.

  Here's the kicker....the word aluminum was the original form of the word and was amended later on to aluminium by the British...so...who's right here? lol

• Answer #3

  but but its a letter and you're justing missing it out and not pronouncing it! The z thing i can understand even if i dont like it, it does make more sense phonetically (the z thing, not the i thing), however its less refined and awesome

• Answer #4

  Because it's spelled "aluminum" over here. See:

  http://www.funadvice.com/r/3jtp7dvtrd

  Same with you using "realise" where we would use realize. It's a colloquial thing, not our blind ignorance I swear :)

• Answer #5

  I never knew that... and I always thought when people typed 'realise' they just didn't know how to spell it. lol.. I say ''Aluminum''... :)

• Answer #6

  beause we doubt pronounce that i, atleast from what i know we dont say ALUMENIUM we say ALUMENUM

• Answer #7

  "Aluminium (or aluminum; )" according to wikipedia it can be spelled both ways .

• Answer #8

  does no one know the answer to this? Anyone? Seriously, its driving me insane

• Answer #9

  why do they not pronouce the h in herbs ?

• Answer #10

  not judging or anything.. BUT WHY?

• Answer #11

  British english is awesome!

• Answer #12

  Snap, I'm American...

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