Add it to the pile of reasons to hate 'em

Pronounce 'bottle of water' right now OP

Okay
Edit: I changed the recording a little bit.
Edit 2: I find it funny how I've posted my voice a bunch in the past and yet fuckin' this is what has people messaging me thirsting over my voice. Friendly reminder. I'm gay. And now scared.
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Platinium

Goldium

Silverium

Leadium

The latin names had -um suffixes
Gold - Aurum
Silver - Argentum
Lead - Plumbum
also:
Copper - Cuprum
Iron - Ferrum
- Aluminum already has an -um suffix so there's no need to change it
Platinium sounds so much better than platinum
Molybdenium
Mercuryium
Motherload moment
- Your mother took my load lmao
The only ones they teach you about in the US, huh? And also not about their latin names apparently.

Aluminum was the original name, YOU GUYS HAD TO GO AND CHANGE IT

Just like soccer.
Look the language is ours now england, you lost the right.
i thought the original name was alumium?
- Alumina ore was smelted/refined to isolate the pure metal.
  Using the preexisting naming convention that ore->metal goes a->um, the discoverer of the element named it Aluminum.
  Later, British chemists got mad that their US naming standard was different from their own standard.
Stuff does occasionally change
In like... Science
- Yes, but when naming new things you typically go with.... you know.... the person that discovered and named it
Ya will Trump is going to rename it to Amerinum now.
- check out number 95
No, it's was Alumium originally. So you guys changed it too, but decided to chsbge it to something worse.

We say it the original correct way in the US. Other countries changed it for some reason. The guy that discovered it in 1808, Sir Humphrey Davy named it "Alumium" which based on Alumen (Latin for bitter salt)but quickly changed it to "Aluminum". I swear I remember reading that he kept getting shit on by the science community and his friends for naming a metal "bitter salt" in Latin ... but can't find a reference.

His colleagues in Britain did mess with him and start using the name "Aluminium" ... exactly because it ended in "ium" like ALL the other elements (Oxygenium, Carbonium, Ironium, Zincium, Nitrogenium, and the like). They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.

He also isolated Magnesium and named it "magnium", but later changed to magnesium. The guy just couldnt settle on names. Again, in my version of reality it is because his friends kept giving him shit.

They US just kept the name the discoverer wanted instead of giving into those British asshats that just wanted to troll Sir Davy.
It probably wasnt really a willful defiance thing. It's likely more correct to say that we kept the name because by the time they changed it officially in Europe, we had millions of students across the country that had textbooks with the name Aluminum in it, that had already been taught the original name, and if the inconsistentcy was even important enought to consider "correcting", it was likely deemed too costly and too much of a headache to change at the time. By the time people were buying reprints/new editions/more recently written textbooks anyway, professional chemists in the US had been calling it Aluminum for years. Given how isolated we were from Europe in the early 1800s, there was very little pressure to align with them on it, and so it stayed. The longer it stayed the more likely it was to be permanent, and here we are.
But yeah, Sir Humphrey Davy was an indecisive wishy-washy namer of elements, disseminated multiple names across the world, but somehow that is our fault when we just stuck with the one we were given and everyone else changed over nitpicky conventions. It's not the only thing that Brits shit on about American English that is entirely their invention or their mistake:
"Soccer" being a British term short for "Association Football"
The season "Fall" being a British term shortened from the phrase "The Fall of the Leaf" and directly complementary to "Spring" which comes from the phrase "The Spring of the Leaf", which they still use despite making fun of Americans for "Fall" instead of their "Autumn", which Americans also use.
"Dove" instead of "dived", "pled" instead of "pleaded", "have gotten" instead of "have got", etc. all started in Britain but were dropped there and stayed in the US.
"Herb" being pronounced with an audible "h". The word is borrowed from French, where the h is silent, exactly like , "honorary", and "honesty". Neither country pronounces either of those words with an "h" sound, but that doesnt stop people like Eddie Izzard shitting on how Americans say it with a silent "h" despite the American pronunciation being, arguably, more correct given the word's origins.
Side note, it is crazy how many words in English are borrowed from French, even if they are horribly mangled and unrecognizable now in a lot of cases. The British Aristocracy really had their noses shoved firmly up French asses for a lot of their history in the last few centuries.
- I suspect that if the US had adopted the name "Aluminium" Britain would have changed it again and they would be making fun of us for not calling it "Aluminiumium".
- I think you’ll enjoy this: Silent Letter Day.
The only reason it's called 'Aluminum' in the US is that name was popularised in the Webster's dictionary in the US as he took the name that marketers were using at the time (as they thought it sounded fancy like Platinum). Prior to that it was widely called 'Aluminium' in the US as well as the rest of the world - as it was the dominant name scientifically, and nobody else used it as it wasn't widely commercially used.
This is all on Wikipedia, dunno why people feel the need to make up their own stories every single time this comes up, but it does make us laugh.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling
- From the Wikipedia page you linked;
  Davy suggested the metal be named alumium in 1808[30] and aluminum in 1812, thus producing the modern name.[29] Other scientists used the spelling aluminium
  The name Aluminium never caught on in the US. It appeared in a few books and was in a dictionary, but so we're words like Soop (for Soup) and greef (for grief). These did not catch on, Americans just kept using Aluminum. Webster wanted to standardize words .. but nobody wanted to use dawter instead of daughter. They did stop using "Gaol" and used Jail instead.
  The word history was "alumium" in 1807, then changed to "aluminum" in 1808. It was not changed to "aluminium" until 1812
We say it the original correct way in the US
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Sir Humphrey Davy named it "Alumium"
- I explained the whole naming process. You gotta read it. The US was given the name as Aluminum and did not change it when the British changed it a third time.

Platinum

Platinium!

If you hate Americans because of this, of all things, then you're going to lose your mind when you find out about everything that's happened this year.

Or the last 200 years.

Am I the only one who finds differences in american vs british english cool, instead of a reason to be a dick

Let's table that discussion.

Oxygen-ium

- I expected Walter in the meme.
  Didnt excpect the element symbol in the gif
  No notes

We canadians also say Aluminum and I would like to be represented in this comic as a target of mockery alongside the US thank you.

Substance discovered by folks that called it alum or aluminum for literally five centuries then the Brits come galloping in to colonize the accepted name then try to look down on everyone else

Then they stole all their ancient artefacts to put in their own museums.
Cool narrative you got there mate, problem is while the term "alum" was used for (far more than) 5 centuries, the words "aluminium" and "aluminium" were both coined around the same time, roughly 1810ish. Also, Sir. Davy, who coined the phrase that you hold dear, was British.
Tldr: every part of that statement is wrong
- It is really weird how you agreed with me and yet still said I was wrong.

Aluminium is not the -ium of alumin

Aluminium is the genericitation of aluminum.

The actual -ium is of alum. The original name is alumium.

Aluminum is a modification of alumiun, not aluminium

You could be right.
However. It’s the internet and I can’t read

Aluminuminium. Now everyone gets to be happy.

Al is Arabic for “the,” “um” was because the scientist forgot what he wanted to say, “in” means inside, and “um” also means the scientist forgot what to say and likely ran away.

It confused me a bit when reading the Mistborn series. Wtf is aluminum and why have i never heard of that? Do they just call Aluminium differently because of story reasons? Did i miss something? Are the other metals correct?

Good books tho

Aluminum is the original name for the element. It was changed to be more in line with the others in its group.
Like in the tv shows when they say "epinephrine", and I was like wtf is that? for years.
And later on with the amazing metal called tungsten. Why have I never heard of it?
(Its andrenaline and wolfram)
- Acetaminophen / Paracetamol is probably the one I see the most.
- Wait until you learn why it's called epinephrine. Then you'll really roll your eyes.
Bendalloy is a commercial name, which is for the best because we'd hate for Wayne to burn Wood's metal

I'm gonna take this chance to air my personal grievance with "Iodine", which is commonly pronounced (in the US at least) "aye-o-dine", but if we look at all of the other halogen, their "-ine" ending is pronounced "-een", and therefore iodine should clearly be pronounced "aye-o-deen".

Iodinium
I'm English and have always pronounced it as aye-o-deen and the use of dine annoys me unreasonably.

Go and get some platinium and if you want to go old fashioned you may like aurium.

Uh-loom-in-um slides off the tongue easier than Al-oo-mi-ni-um. It literally has one less syllable.

Based kolanaki in the comments
To Americans, yes, but the Brits pronounce it more like the end of "vacuum" than the end of "condominium". So for them, same number of syllables.
- I won't hear shit about education from the mealy-mouthed fucks that created Cockney. Piss off to the pub, geezer.

I, a man of culture, call it Alimony.

Which culture is that? Weird Al?

Always find it funny how the French and British traditionally hate on each other but the British will defend to the death the stupid French shit we stole for our language

the amount of times I've seen people get pissed off at the American English removal of the useless "u" is actually fucking silly

The English 'stole' words from the French in the same way half the European world 'stole' Roman roads, words, and customs.
They were colonised by the Normans you silly codswallop. The British retain French words because they were forced on them by the aristocracy a thousand years ago.
- I remember the battle of Hastings like it was yesterday.
It's even sillier when you realize (hah!) that -or came from Latin, and -our came from Old French, and both had been used interchangeably in English for at least a century when Samuel Johnson decided to use -our in his dictionary, and Noah Webster decided to use -or. So Britons and Yankees are equally (in)correct.
I mean we hate on the french, but it's mostly good natured ribbing. Also wasn't most of the french imposed on us post invasion rather than stealing?

Too many syllables.

a LU min um
a lu MIN yum
or something idk
- al loo mee nee uhm

What gets me is an Americanism that seems to have only taken hold in the last 10 years or so - Normalcy. Apparently it's been in use since 1920 but I'm sure it's only recently become ubiquitous in the US. The word is NORMALITY my American friends. Normalcy is a horrible Frankenstien word which sounds and looks horrible written. =p

39 yo American. This is the first time I have ever seen or heard of the word normality... And I read a decent amount of British regency literature.
- Read hitch hikers guide to the galaxy
“Normalcy” was regarded as a mistake for ages and they took the piss out of people for using it, but then it gradually took over. It does sound exactly like a toddler forgetting “normality” and just making something up though.
I know someone that has started saying "normalicy" and I want to scream every time

The five syllable elements are all weird radioactive things. If Al has five syllables it might make my beer can radioactive or poisonous. Better keep the syllable count on Al to four or less like all of the other normal elements.

Aluminio

Sorry, I'm siding with my American compatriots on this one. Yours sounds silly.

"Aluminium" sounds like something a fantasy writer would call aluminum in their novel just to make it sound magical.

Alumium

ITT a bunch of weird pedantic nerds that hate language and don't read enough books.

Back in my day there was an element called unununium until some ~~nuclear scientists~~ bismuth-munching paper-pushers with nickel allergies decided in 2004 that they liked Röntgen more than Regirock.

And before anyone checks, R/S were released in 2002 in Japan and 2003 internationally.

Ralkalest

The only Ferengi I trust deal in Latinium.

I will make a conscious effort now that I know about this issue and also I'm just commenting because this post has that glorious Bottle of Water response and I want it in my comment history to find easier later.

Dubya would start a nukular war over it.

I jitsu like how aluminum sounds

You should just be happy that we aren't all still calling it "tin."

I dunno, I still frequently hear the term "tin can" used to refer to aluminum cans.
- And "tin foil"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQJ5_-8oEAU

All my ninium

Blame the Brits.

Prize | Prise
What
- Cursed
- I (in the UK) say "prize" if it's something you're winning, and "prise" if you're trying to open something with a crowbar.
- Is 'z' even in the British alphabet?

Not listening to countries that say "zed" for the letter z.

Bed, ced, ded, ed, ged, ped, ted, ved? No? Zee.

Would you also like us to say aee, fee, hee, jee, kee, lee, mee, nee, oee, qee, ree, see, uee, wee, xee and yee?
- Are those letters that make the same "ee" sound when you pronounce the letter on its own? Like every one that I listed.
And they just love to add unnecessary U's to everything while they sip their tea with their fucking pinkies up.

Waitaminute arent you the clowns who call fries "chips" and chips "crisps" (dumbest fucking name ever) and cookies "biscuits"? And dont you waddle muddy puddles or else straddle in your silly lorries? Are there ANY consonants that you dont double?

Don't you dare say waddling is from across the pond. Here in america, more than 60% of our population waddles about!
TBH repeating consonants are very helpful in pronouncing non-English words. Making them commonplace would make it easier for translators to recognize their power and more importantly know how to use them.
Simplifying English for The Americans | Michael McIntyre