On 9/6/22 13:19, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote:
or the way they spell "favourites", or pronounce "Aluminum". Do you see an
extra "i" in there? No? It's invisible, that's why.
Yeah. About that.
The "aluminium" version actually preceded "aluminum" by several years,
so if anything the U.S. version is actually the weird one. There are
very few other elements that veer from the standard "ium" suffix into
just "um": molybdenum, lanthanum,, tantalum, platinum, and all of those
are transition metals.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium
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Mark Wieder
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