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October 11th 05, 07:30 PM

"Bruce" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 14:43:58 -0500, Bob Bob wrote:

And being even further OT

Brings further ambiguity to the term "retired" as well. (Like my 65 yo
father just had a wheel transplant)

Since I live in W5... How does one say/spell Titanium/Titanum?

I look at signs on the side of the road "Hiway" and cant for the life
of me work out what that means...

Peter, its actually said in the US how it looks.

Which is why we pronounce extraordinary with five or six
syllables instead of two.

This gets real
confusing for me! (Along with driving on the WRONG side of the road!
grin)

Cheers Bob W5/VK2YQA East Texas
(past the langauge test - can say "Y'all" easily)

John N9JG wrote:

Why do you guys in the US always omit the "i" in aluminium ?

You mean the second "i"? Probably because we spell it correctly: Aluminum.
;~)

But you do it ONLY to Alumin(i)um. What about Lithium, Barium, Chromium,
Ruthenium, Titanium, Uranium, and so on......?

I suppose we could also ask why you need to pronounce the first "u" hard.

Most South Africans don't.

73
Roger ZR3RC