I heard it was a bad transmission of the telegram announcing it’s discovery. The Americans got it without the I so just started using that word instead. Everyone else got the correct word.
This is not true. The initial discoverer, Sir Humphrey Davy, named it alumium and later changed it to aluminum. British chemists changed the name adding the I. Websters dictionary sealed the deal in 1925 by standardizing the name.
I heard it was a bad transmission of the telegram announcing it’s discovery. The Americans got it without the I so just started using that word instead. Everyone else got the correct word.
This is not true. The initial discoverer, Sir Humphrey Davy, named it alumium and later changed it to aluminum. British chemists changed the name adding the I. Websters dictionary sealed the deal in 1925 by standardizing the name.
Common sense says this is likely an urban myth / made up.
Nice. “I heard” this bullshit so I’m gonna roll up in here and repeat it without verifying it.