Pronounce "Auror"

joanne0012 Joanne0012 at aol.com
Fri Jul 4 01:23:44 UTC 2003


No: HPFGUIDX 67241

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "oz_widgeon" <
Littlered32773 at y...> wrote: It's a British thing-got something to do with the 
> accent.  They complain because Americans can't say aluminium 
> correctly (they're right BTW, if you look at it phonetically, it *is* 
> al-yu-min-ee-um), but I suppose we all have our quirks.  

The Americans are pronouncing it correctly, too, since they spell it without the 
second "i": aluminum (ah-loo-min-um).  And that's what it says on the 
American Periodic Table, too.





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