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Australian/British spelling: aluminium
American spelling: aluminum
Lost a few letter there huh!
Yet you (Americans) insist of saying "tuna fish," when the rest of the world can say "tuna," safe in the knowledge that yes, it is a fish, but you don't have to spell it out.
Then I remember the unfortunate experience of watching an episode of newly weds and realise why this is important to you... :P No dear it isn't chicken. O_O
EDIT: Not trying to be offensive here, just musing, since my spell-checker insists on being American and it's annoying me.
American spelling: aluminum
Lost a few letter there huh!
Yet you (Americans) insist of saying "tuna fish," when the rest of the world can say "tuna," safe in the knowledge that yes, it is a fish, but you don't have to spell it out.
Then I remember the unfortunate experience of watching an episode of newly weds and realise why this is important to you... :P No dear it isn't chicken. O_O
EDIT: Not trying to be offensive here, just musing, since my spell-checker insists on being American and it's annoying me.
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Was just getting mad at spell-checker, which refuses to stay on Australian spelling. It changes aluminium and puts Z's where I want S's. Pissing me off man!
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Huh, I guess a lot of Americans do say "tuna fish"...I don't, just fyi. ;)
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Yay! A gal who knows her fish! LOL
I just hear it on the TV all the time and it cracks me up! It was even on Sesame street once. :P
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... Of course, I'm Canadian.
I end all my sentences in 'eh' and say 'aboot' :P
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It's quite amusing to hear him say the word 'gradient'.
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Hee! I think it may just be him! :P
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All my Canadian relatives say 'aboot' and 'eh' too! It's very amusing. :P
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Judge as by The Wiggles instead.
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And I didn't know that they spelt Aluminium differently - I know they pronounced it different. It's like epinephrine and adrenaline, huh? Same chemical but Americans call it epinephrine.
Even the pronounciation of words like "methyl", "ethyl", "propyl" are different. Ah, brings back good memories of organic chem and biochem in Uni! :D
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Love your icon btw! Luv Cameron!
Yup! It's so odd, plus they remove all the u's like in colour- color.
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The use the metric system, say colour and not color, Aluminium... I'm just amused when I see the American date - I always change my Excel default setting to our Aussie date style.
Ah so many cultural and interesting differences. Let's see when I'm in the UK ... the land of "crips" and where people say half 4 instead of half past 4.
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