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Re: A Technical Question
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:03 pm
by winston
You seem to have missed the perennial favourite word most often mispronounced by North Americans..........TOMATOES. Now say that the English/Australian way you lot, ten times. You have to admit that it sounds much better that way.........
Re: A Technical Question
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 1:19 pm
by kiramdear
I learned it both ways:
A to-mah-toe is a vegetable.
A to-may-toe is a pretty girl
Re: A Technical Question
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 2:47 pm
by johnhall
rick_ovic wrote:So where do you guys stick the leftover "i"
Easy- we just don't put it there anymore!
According to an article on the web "Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society officially decided to use the name aluminum thereafter in their publications."
Re: A Technical Question
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 3:13 pm
by beatlefreak
Short and sweet.
Re: A Technical Question
Posted: Mon Sep 15, 2008 5:16 pm
by rick_ovic
John Hall (johnhall) on 16 Sep 2008 04:47 am
rick_ovic wrote:
So where do you guys stick the leftover "i"
Easy- we just don't put it there anymore!
According to an article on the web "Aluminium was also the accepted spelling in the U.S. until 1925, at which time the American Chemical Society officially decided to use the name aluminum thereafter in their publications."
Well, the American Chemical Society could have at least copied us into the memo. We've been wasting 83 years of "i"s all this time.
Re: A Technical Question
Posted: Tue Sep 16, 2008 8:26 am
by beatlefreak
It keeps you busy...
