Now the real question is how you say it
You mean French-English. Since Britain spoke French for hundreds of years they incorporated French aspects into their new English.
& USA removed much of the French parts incorporated into English cause we’re based.
Aluminium
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Molten Alluminium has a very nice colour
We didn’t speak french but norman which then mixed with the native saxon and parts of latin from the romans and over many years made Modern day English
American English was made to make it less like British upper class English by changing spelling
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We removed a lot of tomfoolery from the language, tho some stuck.
Eatery is a simplified word for the French-derived word restaurant.
Getting rid of “U” wherever possible as well.
After all, are you really pronouncing it “col-o-ur” anymore? Or are you pronouncing it the American way?
Funnily enough, aluminium and aluminum were both coined by british scientists to replace the earlier form “alumium”
Alumina is one of my favorite derivatives.
my favorite is Allu
which is the way you’d casually say it in german
I love that aluminium capps the Washington monument
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How much was the cap worth again? A couple cents?
Back then it was the most expensive metal then a few years later a way was found to make it cheaper so it price dropped dramatically
To answer you question at the time it was worth more then gold
Yeah, back then it was like $1.10 per ounce
I can’t even understand a ounce (i refuse to use imperial)
luckily we have computers, because I don’t quite understand imperial either. Apparently the cap weighs 100 ounces, which would be around 2834 grams.
So according to the current value of aluminium that cap is worth a whopping 6,63€ or $4,37 depending on where you buy the aluminium
I refuse to use any weight unit other than washing mashines per minutes
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I can’t argue with that but I’m keeping the U’s
I don’t really care about the OU thing, but I refuse to refer to aluminium as aluminum and to chips as fries
Yu mei whant tu kip theh Us bhut ai du nawt think thaht aidia is gud.
I think they refer to crisps as potato chips which is wrong and then there is American Handball