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Originally posted by Davros:
LOL - we, the other half of the english speaking world always knew you guys and gals pronounce it ALUMINUM (ie without the i), but I didn't realise till today that you spell it that way too. I just got my annual report as an employee shareholder of ALCOA, and all through the report it refers to Aluminum  - and I just checked some old American version text books and found the same thing.
Up till now, I thought you guys just massacred the pronunciation - I didn't realise that you actually have your own completely culturally independant version of the periodic table of elements  - or should that be Perodic Table **grynzz**
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I beg your pardon, Davros, Here in the South (the Old Confederacy) we still try to use the Oxford spellings of words. It has something to do with Webster being a Danm Yankee.
It's Aluminium, and our paints come in colours.