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Wow! This is just what I often joke about to my friends. I write in such heavy cursives that when I write words like Minimum or Aluminium, they become hard to read for anyone else.
Your Aluminum having an extra “i” might contribute
I just noticed that it was the same person responding both times. He took that like a champ
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium The Americans have one less «i», not the other way around.
Sounds like the British guy who discovered it settled on the spelling without the extra i
A January 1811 summary of one of Davy's lectures at the Royal Society mentioned the name aluminium as a possibility. The next year, Davy published a chemistry textbook in which he used the spelling aluminum.
Kinda seems like there was a typo and it just stuck.
It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time
America kept the old word. I'm half surprised America doesn't call gold aurium
Do you not think that textbook would have multiple places where they use that word?
Is the word only ever written in the one textbook, then?
Im saying that it's not a typo if the creator of a word spells it a certain way multiple times in a book. They clearly meant to spell it that way when they were writing the book.
As i read it, in the commenter's scenario, it is the extra "i" that would be the typo.
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Letting go of the colonies was a mistake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium The Americans have one less «i», not the other way around.