Pronunciations

[Amy Z]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., lizscford at a... wrote:

> the US 
> and UK ways of pronouncing 'Aluminium' are completely different.  I 
went to 
> Disneyland not so long ago and some one said 'al-oo-min-um' and it 
took me a 
> few seconds to work out that they actually meant 'al-u-min-e-um'

We spell it differently, too.  Both are quite phonetic:  UK 
aluminIUM='al-u-min-e-um', US aluminUM='al-oo-min-um.'

There was a funny post making the rounds during the 
post-presidential-election turmoil last year, in which Queen Elizabeth 
purportedly announced that since we clearly couldn't manage our 
affairs ourselves, England was taking over where it left off 225 years 
ago.  Therefore, she said, we (meaning the citizens of the Fifty 
Colonies) needed to start doing a few things differently--among them, 
pronounce al-u-min-e-um correctly.

Amy Z