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Comments #9878728:
AmericanButterfly
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So Spooky
8 8, 8:45am
@
VeryCreativeName
so apparently aluminium/aluminum was named British Humphry Davy and he wanted it be pronounced aluminum but is fellow British countrymen were "no we're going to call it aluminium" but the Americans kept calling it aluminum.
here's a video about it
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gfxm2qqghsQ
so we Americans are just respecting a dead man's wishes unknownly
also British invented the word soccer
31
@VeryCreativeName so apparently aluminium/aluminum was named British Humphry Davy and he wanted it be pronounced aluminum but is fellow British countrymen were "no we're going to call it aluminium" but the Americans kept calling it aluminum.
here's a video about it https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Gfxm2qqghsQ
so we Americans are just respecting a dead man's wishes unknownly
also British invented the word soccer