Aluminum "the word"

bluearc · Feb 7, 2014

Over the past 30 yrs in my welding shop I've heard the word, do you weld; alumamum, or lumamin, or lumumum, or lunamin, or alumin and of course aluminum.

Question is, has anyone else heard any other pronounciations to add to this list??

steamachine · Feb 7, 2014

"Aluminium" usually by a Brit.

Davis In SC · Feb 7, 2014

I have heard "Aluminal", and my Grandmother said she knew a lady that could not stop at UM.. She would say "Aluminuminuminuminum..............."

billmac · Feb 7, 2014

Well yes of course - the proper spelling and pronunciation is Aluminium, just like Titanium, Beryllium, Niobium etc etc.

John Welden · Feb 7, 2014

I've heard 6061 called shitty shitty one.

JRIowa · Feb 7, 2014

pot metal
JR

Mcgyver · Feb 7, 2014

billet. <gag>

RebHawk · Feb 7, 2014

Shiny wood.

3t3d · Feb 7, 2014

Is the peak of the Washington Monument topped with what WAS a very exotic metal?

Hdpg · Feb 7, 2014

Yes just the same as some french guys cutlery.

jackalope · Feb 7, 2014

Aluminion was said multiple time on some British car show. Drove me nuts

Spencer in NH · Feb 7, 2014

3t3d said:
Is the peak of the Washington Monument topped with what WAS a very exotic metal?

Yes, it really is.

A History of the Aluminum Cap of the Washington Monument

Mcgyver · Feb 7, 2014

jackalope said:
Aluminion was said multiple time on some British car show. Drove me nuts

In Canada we pronounce it as you do in the States. Perhaps instead we should feel grateful to their tolerance of our mispronunciation.... deferring to the English on the subject of English pronunciation.

Mark Rand · Feb 7, 2014

The preferred international IUPAC spelling is aluminium. This seems to be a fair tradeoff to me for accepting the preferred spelling of sulfur for the element that I know as sulphur

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Mark Rand · Feb 7, 2014

JRIowa said:
pot metal
JR

Be fair, pot metal is normally zinc based, with aluminium and copper there as alloying elements.

andrewmawson · Feb 7, 2014

The one that gets me in all the US TV programs is 'SOLDER' pronounced 'SODDER' whereas, oddly enough we pronounce it SOLDER with the 'L' which, as I understand it, is how you spell it anyway.

WizardOfBoz · Feb 7, 2014

Mcgyver said:
In Canada we pronounce it as you do in the States. Perhaps instead we should feel grateful to their tolerance of our mispronunciation.... deferring to the English on the subject of English pronunciation.

Well, if they'd have pronounced stuff right, we wouldn't have to correct them.

Seriously, I can live with either aluminum or aluminium, but where the hell did the "f" come from in lieutenant?

Rob F. · Feb 7, 2014

Mcgyver said:
billet. <gag>

Don't you mean "tactical billet"? :ack2:

Rob

Royldean · Feb 7, 2014

billmac said:
Well yes of course - the proper spelling and pronunciation is Aluminium, just like Titanium, Beryllium, Niobium etc etc.

Well yes of course - the proper spelling and pronunciation is Aluminum, just like Platinum, Tantalum, Lanthanum etc etc.*

*I admit, I can't find any others to represent "etc etc"

Royldean · Feb 7, 2014

Rob F. said:
Don't you mean "tactical billet"?
Rob

professional grade lathed tactical aircraft billet

Aluminum "the word"

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