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[starrylizard]

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.

Comments

[mcalex22.livejournal.com]

Oooh, I see the banner!!!! :D

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

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

*grins* Yeah like the banner? I love the mistake with the headphone. It looks a little like a security thing for some reason. :)

Love your icon btw! Luv Cameron!

Yup! It's so odd, plus they remove all the u's like in colour- color.

[mcalex22.livejournal.com]

But the Canadians are "normal" :grin:

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.

[starrylizard.livejournal.com]

It's the differences that make travel fun! Otherwise there's no point! :)