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With you on the bibblybyte thing (or whatever the hell that is - and I work in IT), but Firefox only agrees with you on ‘Aluminum’ because of your regional setting. Firefox agrees with me on ‘Aluminium’, because it’s set to en-gb on my computer.
Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisitium
C’mon, these days everyone expects the Spanish Inquisition.
What nobody expected was the English Erudition. 
1 less syllable, easier to pronounce.
I remember hearing a story that the discovery of aluminium was announced via an overseas cable from the UK to the US, and the person keying in the telegram accidentally left out the “i”, leading to the change.
I’ve always assumed this was apocryphal. Has anyone else heard it?
And the same structure can be seen with the verb “to forget”:
get gotten got
forget forgotten forgot
Interesting. Even the name of the village means “we’re not really the important village.”
I have heard of misbegotten but not misbegot.
Glenn Seaborg could receive a letter addressed in chemical elements: seaborgium, lawrencium (for the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory where he worked), berkelium, californium, americium.
He co-discovered 10 elements and his long time partner in arms Al Ghorso - 12. (presumably Al got to pick berkelium and seaborgium). The lawrence livermore group discovered/co-discovered all the above elements. - 14 by one attribution.
The JINR group at Dubna got to co-discover between 8 and 11 elements. and the German Darmstadtgroup 7 .
Since considerable controversy exists over discovery, primacy of elements above 92 and worsened by secrecy and the need to have independent confirmation, the old elementary heroes still shine bright - Humphrey Davy and Marie Curie.
Aluminum, if he’s prepared.
Actually I screwed up my syllabic delineation. In the US it’s pronounced: a-lu-mi-num, with ‘num’ being the last syllable. Again, I think simply because it just falls trippingly off the tongue this way!
Who cares?* You’re doing it right anyway, for your locality.
*I mean, kinda ironic going to all the trouble of telling us twice how convenient it is that you occasionally save a syllable.
Shakespeare, Timon of Athens
Your words have took such pains as if they labour’d
To bring manslaughter into form and set quarrelling
Upon the head of valour; which indeed
Is valor misbegot…
Only time in Shakespeare, which may or may not prove anything.
This has took a little time to get to.
Chuckle.