Watch, someone will say “redundancy”… :smack:
Link? 
physical: pertaining to material things or your person / body.
**fiscal:**pertaining to money matters.
Pacific: A large body of water to the West of North & South America.
specific: indicating a particular thing / idea / whatever.
Please do not confuse these…
:smack: it wouldn’t hurt for me to actually look at all the pretty buttons, would it?
dan, you da man!
It’s ok. If I had Dazzling White Diamonds, I might be distracted, too.
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Only if you pronounce “jewel” JEW-ELL, in which case I ask you never to say it within earshot/gunshot of me.
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Just out of curiosity then.
How do you say: magnesium?
Mag nes eee umm
There’s only one pronunciation and spelling for that one. I’m not positive, but I’m pretty sure Cecil did a column on the aluminum/aluminium bit.
Mag-nyee-sin-i-um
Daniel
Cheers, will go look it up
So that’s why Mr. DWD is so distracted…
Ma, git out mah gun…
And how about… mischievous?
I can’t find it. Yet. I looked on Snopes, too.
I know I saw this, though. I know it!
The point was made in the piece that this metal is the only one (or one of the very few) that is known by two different names: aluminum in the U.S. and aluminium in the U.K.
For what it’s worth, here’s an interesting article on aluminum/aluminium’s history.
Daniel
And how about EXcape instead of EScape?
wanders off singing O Little Town of Bethlehem to herself
Peripheral.
Not periphial.
Thank you.
And we in America pronounce Aluminum just the way it sounds. I suppose if it were spelled Aluminium here, we’d pronounce it the way that sounds, too.
Here in the sticks I hear masonAry a lot instead of masonry.
Grrrr.
“Duck tape” is also correct.
No, really!
Yeah, I always thought it was a spelling thing more than a pronounciation thing.
Duck Tape: made from feathers and used for gagging, well, ducks
Invented for the US Army in WWII. Used to keep ammunition dry. Because water rolled off of it like a duck. Our boys were over there fighting the scourge of fascism, not the scourge of untaped heating and air-conditioning systems.
Actually, both duck and duct are correct.
Nor PER-I-FREE-AL, as my sister heard a couple of DJs saying once.
And has anyone heard this? COWM-pound instead of COM-pound? This one gives my teeth goosebumps.