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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