>>Now why the heck do some Brits pronounce it:
a-lu-min-i-um ?
I understand it was a spelling mistake or other error on one of the first shipments to the US.
>>Now why the heck do some Brits pronounce it:
a-lu-min-i-um ?
I understand it was a spelling mistake or other error on one of the first shipments to the US.
"Now why the heck do some Brits pronounce it:
a-lu-min-i-um ? "
"I understand it was a spelling mistake or other error on one of the first shipments to the US."
That's odd, most Brits I know wonder why Americans pronounce it aluminum, since our dictionaries has the 'i' in it, properly dotted and everything.
I was told by a friend, who's usually reliable on such matters that the origial discoverer, apparantly American, when he first named it actually called it Aluminum but the rest of the scientific world tried to force it into fitting with more of the periodic table by chaging it to ium at the end but I have no idea how true this is. It could have just have been down to some really dodgy handwriting somewhere.
Oh yeah, sulphur, haemoglobin and foetus by the way in cae you wondered.
Lead me not into temptation... I can find it myself.
Hmm.. the English language has 'evolved' somewhere along the lines. Globally and locally.
Some of the British dialects are near impossible to understand(eg. Newcastle). The Queen's english is nearly non-existent. Such a pity.
-Penny
So, now we Americans don't speak English but, instead, some language called "American"? That's news to me; I guess I should get foreign language credits for my English classes then.
Koshare said:
Maybe the form of American English spoken in your part of the country uses many Spanish words; but, around here, only a few Spanish words are used--and not all that frequently: patio, plaza, taco, burrito, tornado, tortilla, and a few more, mainly related to food.American has alot of spanish words in it...
A strange feature of many English and Australian dialects of English is the dropping of the terminating r. It can add to miscommunication.
[stealth] said:
Pronouncing final r's is not the same as rolling r's. A Mexican might roll his or her r's when speaking Spanish or even English, but most Americans don't.You do Govt. You roll your R's. "How arrr you going today?" Say it like that, and that's how you sound.
I see many other Americans use the word bloody; it does add some color to speech, doesn't it?
