History questions not worth their own thread V

[Dachs]

British spelling?

Correct.

 

[Lord Baal]

Correct.

It's nice to see you finally acknowledging that British spelling is the correct spelling .

 

[Gen.Mannerheim]

It's nice to see you finally acknowledging that British spelling is the correct spelling .

British spellings are the correct spellings, but in Murica we just don't care!

 

[CaptainLost]

British spelling?

Not only that but everywhere but north America. See here.

 

[Antilogic]

I don't think that link supports that argument, unless I'm seriously missing what you are saying.

 

[CaptainLost]

Scroll down a bit

Artefact is more common everywhere outside North America.

 

[madviking]

artefact just looks so wrong

 

[Antilogic]

Scroll down a bit

For some reason, I misread your previous post to say that artefact was the most common spelling in North America. To which I was about to say USA and Canada and artefacto.

My mistake.

 

[Arakhor]

artefact just looks so wrong

So do "sulfur" and "cesium". What's your point?

 

[CaptainLost]

Does anywhere besides Britain also say "geezer" instead of "geyser"? or is that just a British thing? I've always found that funny.

So do "sulfur" and "cesium". What's your point?

If you think about it, 'of' even seems wrong. should be 'ov' or something, eh?

 

[Arakhor]

"Guy-zer" sounds just as odd to my ears, you know.

 

[CaptainLost]

How about "baygel " and "erb " and "aloominuhm" (bagel, herb, aluminum)?

 

[Arakhor]

'Erb' is just odd. You don't say "eretic", after all.

I've always said 'baygel', personally, given that I've never heard it pronounced it differently, and 'aluminum' appears to be more of Webster's travesties against the English language.

 

[Antilogic]

The British pronunciation of aluminum sounds like the speaker is describing an insane asylum, and the speaker should be a resident of such a facility until they pronounce their science-y words in a science-y fashion.

 

[Lord Baal]

The British pronunciation of aluminum sounds like the speaker is describing an insane asylum, and the speaker should be a resident of such a facility until they pronounce their science-y words in a science-y fashion.

Because it's plutonum and uranum?

 

[Arakhor]

Yeah! I'll bludgeon you to death with a Born-Haber cycle and a few Planck lengths unless you say 'aluminium' and 'sulphur' (IUPAC be damned).

 

[Traitorfish]

Does anywhere besides Britain also say "geezer" instead of "geyser"? or is that just a British thing? I've always found that funny.

"geez-uh"

"geez-uh"

"geez-uh"

"geez-uh"

 

[CaptainLost]

Yeah! I'll bludgeon you to death with a Born-Haber cycle and a few Planck lengths unless you say 'aluminium' and 'sulphur' (IUPAC be damned).

Sulphur and sulfur are pronounced differently?

Nothing is worse, though, than "nucular " instead of "nuclear". That's an American thing, though.

 

[Arakhor]

Well, no, but one looks horrific to my eye.

 

[sydhe]

Because it's plutonum and uranum?

It's platinum, molybdenum, tantalum and lanthanum, and Davy named it aluminum, so take that, IUPAC.

This is part of my one-man campaign to rename element 112 copernicum so people will know how to pronounce it.