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Is that right? I thought it was alUminum in the states? There's a thread somewhere else where someone explained the origin. Apparently it was universally called aluminum at one point but the guy who named it kept changing his mind between that and AlumInium and both got used.
Yep, but it's the lack of that extra "i" that bugs me. And naturally my coworkers make fun of me because I can't say aluminum but always aluminium
Debsi - does it matter where in the US you are from then? My American friend is originally from Wisconsion. Maybe it is different there. I'm moving down to your area over the summer I shall have to ask folk to pronounce things!!
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Originally Posted by Stormcrow73
That's how I and most people I know say it also. I'd image the short a version is fairly restricted to specific regions but I can't say with any certainty.
Backtotx, I was born in California to parents from Michigan and Pennyslvania. Now I live in Texas. I can't think of anybody I know that says apricot with the short A, but I've certainly heard it before. I am going to agree with Stormcrow on this one.
Even though I wanted tomato in a Subway sandwich, I went without because I knew they couldn't understand me and I refused to say it their way.
Pronounciation is one of those words that most people get wrong, they say and spell pronounce with the 'u' but drop it when speaking and writing pronounciation.
Even though I wanted tomato in a Subway sandwich, I went without because I knew they couldn't understand me and I refused to say it their way.
Pronounciation is one of those words that most people get wrong, they say and spell pronounce with the 'u' but drop it when speaking and writing pronounciation.
Spot on- if you said tomato the wrong way in that place you got a blank look and a long queue behind you!
A good Brit friend of mine who also now lives over here has adapted the 'warder' pronounciation of water - arrgh!
LOL now he needs to go live in Baltimore or Philly so he can learn about the "wooter" pronunciation.
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