Re: Serpent's hauberk pronunciation
Posted: Sat Apr 08, 2017 6:47 pm
The English discoverer of the element called it alumium, and later aluminum, while another apparently influential chemist thought that aluminium would be better because it sounded "more classical". Early on, even some individual chemists would commonly go back and forth in their writings. Eventually the two sides of the Atlantic drifted apart on it (yes, Canada says "um", not "ium").
So it's not a case of right way or wrong way. It's just the old saying - "England and the US: two nations divided by a common language"
So it's not a case of right way or wrong way. It's just the old saying - "England and the US: two nations divided by a common language"