Is it Aluminum or Aluminium? For me it is Aluminum.

@JamesBugman I agree the exact comment i was going to make, As a Brit it is aluminium for me.

@OogieBoogie Hmmm.... very interesting!

@BloviatingBuffoon my hub says i say things wrong but idc .. english wasn't my mom’s first language so.. idk 😅

@YoMomma same!

@BloviatingBuffoon ah ☺

@BloviatingBuffoon Ok, forget him. I have various degrees, incl. one in Physics.

You knew what I was talking about with the IUPAC/IUPAP. 🥰🥰🥰

And my mouth feels wrong saying Aluminium...! lol

@SomeMichGuy it is a European thing…and I am not European 🤷🏻‍♀

@BloviatingBuffoon It's got a complicated history, but--oddly enough!--you can blame Humphry Davy (yes, the British chemist!) for getting this started. (See the wikipedia article for "Aluminium".)

Also an oddity mentioned in that article us that scientists in the US used "-ium" from the beginning.

I think Davy was copied by IBM when they developed EBCDIC when ASCII was already around, free, and better. lol

@Jenny1234 ...and AI gives a partial answer.

The fuller answer is in the Wikipedia article. Don't trust AI; it's based on the same hubris as "we can make self-driving cars"...

@cherokeepatti no. But he is European

@BloviatingBuffoon

Now I've heard three versions lol

@rinkydinkydoink Y is silent, so Hun Dai

@JamesBugman

The count is up to 4 now!

Yunday, Hun Dai, Hy Un Dai and, finally, Hunday which rhymes with Sunday.

@BloviatingBuffoon The hell?!
That would make me mad too. Tell him to read the label and sound it out... slowly...

@Tumbleweed it’s aluminium for them. Aluminum for me

@BloviatingBuffoon I'm with you, aluminum.