Re: silly question

["Colin J. Ingram" <cjingram@wisc.edu>]

Blake Swadling wrote:

> > On Thu, 2005-03-03 at 21:26 -0800, Gordon Jackson wrote:
> >  
> >
> > > I can’t believe that I am going take a swing at this pulpy dead horse,
> > > but I can’t resist J
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >     1. From “The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing”: /deb'ee`n/,
> > >        *not* /deeb'ee`n/
> > >
> > > Additionally: The name Debian is a contraction of DEB(ra) and IAN
> > > Murdock.
> > >
> > >     1. Aluminum has one ‘i’ unless you’re from the UK, where it is
> > >        Aluminium – this is a variant of Aluminum, not the other way
> > >        around.
> >
> > Hmm i think from where i sit (not in the UK) it is Aluminium, and
> > Aluminum is a case where spelling has been altered to fit the
> > (mis)pronunciation
I'm a chemist at a chemistry institution and from where I sit it is 
Aluminum.  I can't find one periodic table in this building with approx 
600 people in it plus students which says otherwise.  Then again I'm in 
the US.  However the CRC handbook of Chemistry and Physics spells it 
this way, as well as the International Union Of Pure and Applied 
Chemistry(IUPAC), who standardize the naming of chemical compounds for 
the world.


Sorry for sending this directly to you first Blake.