Al U Minium

Wed Feb 14 08:00:46 CST 2018

"Aluminum" is US English while “aluminium”  is British English.    
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium

English never was too standard in the first place and then us US folks changed it a lot in the 16th - 19th centuries (several reasons)  and Noah Webster himself changed and standardized quite a lot of it by publishing dictionaries and school books.  

There are many words and phrases like that - different in British English than in US English.  Some are spelled differently,  some just pronounced differently with different syllables stressed and they sound weird/wrong.  Their punctuation is different too so sometimes we see two version of the same book -  one for British English and one for US English.  (The English is “translated" into American.)  

Becky
https://beckylindroos.wordpress.com

> On Feb 13, 2018, at 6:30 PM, David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Why so many syllables?

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