I'm gonna take this chance to air my personal grievance with "Iodine", which is commonly pronounced (in the US at least) "aye-o-dine", but if we look at all of the other halogen, their "-ine" ending is pronounced "-een", and therefore iodine should clearly be pronounced "aye-o-deen".
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Iodinium
I'm English and have always pronounced it as aye-o-deen and the use of dine annoys me unreasonably.
Uh-loom-in-um slides off the tongue easier than Al-oo-mi-ni-um. It literally has one less syllable.
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You should just be happy that we aren't all still calling it "tin."
I dunno, I still frequently hear the term "tin can" used to refer to aluminum cans.
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Alumium
Aluminio
Too many syllables.
ITT a bunch of weird pedantic nerds that hate language and don't read enough books.
What gets me is an Americanism that seems to have only taken hold in the last 10 years or so - Normalcy. Apparently it's been in use since 1920 but I'm sure it's only recently become ubiquitous in the US. The word is NORMALITY my American friends. Normalcy is a horrible Frankenstien word which sounds and looks horrible written. =p
39 yo American. This is the first time I have ever seen or heard of the word normality... And I read a decent amount of British regency literature.
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The five syllable elements are all weird radioactive things. If Al has five syllables it might make my beer can radioactive or poisonous. Better keep the syllable count on Al to four or less like all of the other normal elements.