• Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Aluminum is one where I think Americans have it correct. The British chemist who isolated it wanted to call it alumium, but it didn’t fit with the Latin-derived naming schemes of elements used at the time. Someone else suggested “aluminium”, where as the guy who isolated it went with “Aluminum”. So I say we stick with aluminum, or go to alumium cuz it sounds cool.

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      5 months ago

      Eh, I’m much keener on returning the letters we dropped for whatever reason.

      Traveler -> traveller, armor -> armour, etc.