On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:27:02 -0500, Allan Butler
wrote:

I have tried all the local metal suppliers and several in the Chicago
area to get 6061-T6 aluminum tubing from in very specific sizes. I need to
^^^^^^^^

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

Alsao why a car tire instead of tyre?

Just asking ;-)


Peter, G3PHO

Because it's ALUMINUM!!!

Tyre is an ancient biblical city. Tire is that round thingee between my
automobile and the road surface.

Peter wrote:

On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:27:02 -0500, Allan Butler
wrote:


I have tried all the local metal suppliers and several in the Chicago
area to get 6061-T6 aluminum tubing from in very specific sizes. I need to

^^^^^^^^

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

Alsao why a car tire instead of tyre?

Just asking ;-)


Peter, G3PHO

On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:33:35 -0400, Amos Keag
wrote:

Because it's ALUMINUM!!!

Tyre is an ancient biblical city. Tire is that round thingee between my
automobile and the road surface.


Tire is what I do very rapidly when listen to a politician spout forth
on the TV ... :-)

Let's face it - English is a crazy language. There is no egg in eggplant,
nor ham in hamburger; neither apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins
weren't invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are
candies while sweetbreads, which aren't sweet, are meat. We take English for
granted. But if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work
slowly, boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor
is it a pig.

And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing, grocers don't groce
and hammers don't ham? If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural
of booth, beeth? One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese? One index, 2
indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends but not one amend?
If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of all but one of them,
what do you call it?

If teachers taught, why didn't preachers praught? If a vegetarian eats
vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat? Sometimes I think all the English
speakers should be committed to an asylum for the verbally insane. In what
language do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck and
send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell?

How can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites? You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a
language in which your house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill
in a form by filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all. That
is why, when the stars are out, they are visible, but when the lights are
out, they are invisible.

PS. - Why doesn't "Buick" rhyme with "quick"



"Peter" wrote in message
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On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 13:33:35 -0400, Amos Keag
wrote:

Because it's ALUMINUM!!!

Tyre is an ancient biblical city. Tire is that round thingee between my
automobile and the road surface.


Tire is what I do very rapidly when listen to a politician spout forth
on the TV ... :-)

On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:40:14 -0400, "Fred W4JLE"
wrote:

English was invented by people, not computers, and it reflects the
creativity of the human race, which, of course, is not a race at all.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

English is long overdue for an overhaul. Countless hours are spent by
schoolchildren learning all the bizarre exceptions to the "rules",
which aren't really rules at all. What a waste of time!

I would like to see a commission established to reform spelling, to
begin with, and if successful, work on grammar.

I love the English language, but the time has come.

73, Bill W6WRT

Also, why do we say tube rather than valve?

"Peter" wrote in message
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On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 20:27:02 -0500, Allan Butler
wrote:

I have tried all the local metal suppliers and several in the
Chicago
area to get 6061-T6 aluminum tubing from in very specific sizes. I need
to
^^^^^^^^

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

Alsao why a car tire instead of tyre?

Just asking ;-)


Peter, G3PHO

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. 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 ?

Alsao why a car tire instead of tyre?

Just asking ;-)


Peter, G3PHO

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 ?

Alsao why a car tire instead of tyre?

Just asking ;-)


Peter, G3PHO

wrote in
:

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.
;~)

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

On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 11:35:49 GMT, Bruce wrote:


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

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


Do we? I hadn't noticed ;-)