Its spelled Aluminum here. Not Aluminium. Is it spelled that way over there? I forget how iupac work there. Been a while. Thought it was international, so nomenclature was the same. I suspect Aluminium may be and old enlgish variation. Pretty sure according to contemporary iupac nomenclature, its Aluminum. Wouldnt surprise me if teachers in UK still call it Aluminium tho. That is, if I understand your post correctly.
let us google it
aluminium : 34.200.000 hits
aluminum : 44.700.000 hits
I use aluminium because Im dutch but it looks like aluminum is a bit more widespread.
and some explanation
http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
Yeah it sounds like it should glow...Fair enough.
Because Linus is a common enough name in North America and is pronounced "Line-us". Doesn't matter what the original name was supposed to sound like, if your only method of conveying it is in writing, people are going to pronounce it as they read it.
Aloomina. Why, how do you pronounce it?
Aloomina. Why, how do you pronounce it?
True, in English, the stress is in different places in aluminium and alumina - but in my (limited) experience English chemists usually call it aluminium oxide anyway.
Damnit, nearly wrote aluminimum. All this typing bolds is confusing me!
Like I say, the emphasis has shifted between alumina and aluminium. The U is emphasised in alumina, while in aluminium it's so unemphasised as to almost be silent - alla-minnium.
ThanksBecause Linus is a common enough name in North America and is pronounced "Line-us". Doesn't matter what the original name was supposed to sound like, if your only method of conveying it is in writing, people are going to pronounce it as they read it.
Linus -> Line Us
Linux -> Line Ucks
Sometimes it is pronounce lin ucks (like tin), but I can't think of any word in the English language that has "li" making a "lee" sound, so it doesn't make any sense for an English speaker to conclude that that's how it is pronounced.
For the ux part to be ucks, we also look at the originating word "minix", pronounced min icks. Soft 'i' replaced with a soft 'u', you get min ucks.
What I don't understand is why non-native English speakers would expect it to be pronounced a specific way despite there being no rules for it to be so in English, as if we can hear accents in text.
Even better is 'parster', wot you have with a parster sauce.
What's with that certain kind of British accent that replaces "th" sounds with "f"?
That's a feature of a number of London accents, most famously east London and cockney, I think.
True, and the iPad has turned all those plans to make ARM smartbooks into plans to make damn tablets. Just give me a decent keyboard, damnit! I'm quite tempted to pick up a Toshiba AC100 since it gives you Nvidia graphics, 2xA9 processors at 1GHz, what appears to be a passable keyboard and a netbook screen. Just a shame, as you say, at present it runs Android. I've not been able to find out if you can install alternative OSen on it.
