Will not forgive my phone for knowing aluminum but...

@Gargron That's from a diatribe peter sellers wrote where he says england should take america back and teach them the word is "aluminium", among other things. Not turning up in a search unfortunately. It's very funny. Dated sometime around the beginning of the war on Iraq.

21 Aug 2021 at 14:06 | Open on kolektiva.social

FiXato

@Gargron given that you are using American English spelling (recognizing) rather than British English (recognising), isn't that to be expected?

Anyway, I do prefer 'aluminium', given I'm Dutch and that's also its spelling in my mother-tongue.

(Interestingly enough btw, 'aluminum' (the AmE spelling) actually is an older spelling than 'aluminium' (BrE spelling), and if the name hadn't been amended by Sir Humphry Davy, we could even have been calling it 'alumium' (note the missing 'n'). See etymology of 'aluminum')

#etymology #linguistics

@Gargron given that you are using American English spelling (recognizing) rather than British English (recognising), isn't that to be expected?

Anyway, I do prefer 'aluminium', given I'm Dutch and that's also its spelling in my mother-tongue.

(Interestingly enough btw, 'aluminum' (the AmE spelling) actually is an older spelling than 'aluminium' (BrE spelling), and if the name hadn't been amended by Sir Humphry Davy, we could even have been calling it 'alumium' (note the missing 'n'). See etymology of 'aluminum'

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21 Aug 2021 at 14:07 | Open on toot.cat

Григорий Клюшников

Android (Gboard) is pretty good with English. Russian tho... It annoys me to no end that it doesn't know half the forms of many commonly used words. Also had to teach it to swear.

21 Aug 2021 at 14:34

Ricardo J. Méndez

@Gargron A modern-day Eddie Izzard routine waiting to happen.

21 Aug 2021 at 15:22 | Open on mastodon.social

frankie

@Gargron
haha! i missed that spelling difference! 😁

25 Aug 2021 at 7:00 | Open on koyu.space