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I want Americans (I am one), to start saying aluminium so badly
Aluminum is one where I think Americans have it correct. The British chemist who isolated it wanted to call it alumium, but it didn’t fit with the Latin-derived naming schemes of elements used at the time. Someone else suggested “aluminium”, where as the guy who isolated it went with “Aluminum”. So I say we stick with aluminum, or go to alumium cuz it sounds cool.
alumium sounds like onions
Both are accepted as legitimate by the scientific community so it's pretty much the reason why America still calls it Aluminum.
"Alumium" would definitely be more correct than "aluminum", since it's spelled "aluminium" in the vast majority of languages across the world.
Eh, I'm much keener on returning the letters we dropped for whatever reason.
Traveler -> traveller, armor -> armour, etc.