• purplemonkeymad@programming.dev
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    21 days ago

    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.

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      20 days ago

      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.