You've seen the water car...

[Dreamcrusher]

have you seen the air cars yet?
http://www.smm.org/buzz/buzz_tags/motor ... ernational

[martini161]

if i hear some one say alu mini um one more time i might just snap

[Sporg]

if i hear some one say alu mini um one more time i might just snap

Thank you

[DMB2000uk]

If you could spell it right, you'd know that's how it's written and hence pronounced

Dan

[martini161]

If you could spell it right, you'd know that's how it's written and hence pronounced

Dan

Aluminum
\ə-ˈlü-mə-nəm\
a bluish silver-white malleable ductile light trivalent metallic element that has good electrical and thermal conductivity, high reflectivity, and resistance to oxidation and is the most abundant metal in the earth's crust where it always occurs in combination
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/aluminum
click on the pronunciation link

[Alathald]

There is also an entry for aluminium:

Aluminium
Pronunciation:
\ˌal-yə-ˈmi-nē-əm\
Function:
noun
Etymology:
New Latin, from alumina
Date:
1812

chiefly British : aluminum

Sorry Dan, I think Martini gets the point this time (as much as I like to annoy people by saying "aluminium")

[DMB2000uk]

I bet I can quote the proper spelling from the most dictionaries.

You are like the one country (and canada) in the whole world that doesn't call it aluminium.

Something isn't right there.

Dan

[Alathald]

That may be but it's an American forum
All in good fun though, here's a couple interesting things from both sides [link] [link]
Also, it's Aluminium on Wikipedia...[link]

[DMB2000uk]

Americans adopted -ium to fit the standard form of the periodic table of elements, for most of the nineteenth century, with aluminium appearing in Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In 1892, however, Charles Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an advertising handbill for his new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant use of the -ium spelling in all the patents[22] he filed between 1886 and 1903.[28] It has consequently been suggested that the spelling reflects an easier to pronounce word with one fewer syllable, or that the spelling on the flier was a mistake. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium version.

Haha, you could be just using that pronunciation from a spelling mistake

Dan

[Dreamcrusher]

Funny....the way of this thread. What, with the price of fuel and all.
But since we went down this road, the way the English pronounce vitamin has always got me too.
The dude on Man Vs. Wild does it every time.

[vicaphit]

It is pointless to argue over pronunciation... personally I hate how southerners say "wash"... there is no "R" in wash damnit!

[stopthekilling77]

It is pointless to argue over pronunciation... personally I hate how southerners say "wash"... there is no "R" in wash damnit!

THANK YOU!!!!
"gun' go warsh mah carrrr"

:D not just a southern thing, my grandma from CA says it too.

[Dreamcrusher]

It is pointless to argue over pronunciation... personally I hate how southerners say "wash"... there is no "R" in wash damnit!

Not one in "idea" either but the Dad on American Chopper says it all the time with an R at the end. Must be an east coast thing.