The history of the world Alumium/Aluminum/Aluminium is a fun one. Originally named Alumium in 1808 by English chemist Sir Humphry Davy, the name went on to absolutely fail and face ridicule by his peers. Later on in 1812 he would name it "Aluminum" in a book he published named "Elements of Chemical Philosophy." This name was better, but still rejected by some. The name Aluminium came about due to frustrations with the revised name not sounding "classical" enough; do with this what you will. For a time following this, both Aluminum and Aluminium were used interchangeably. Aluminum fell out of fashion in Europe, and stayed in use in America. This isn't a case of stupid Americans, this is just the wonderful complexity of evolving language! Still, game is set in America. calling it aluminium would make more sense if the game was in the UK. then we could change the name for a billion things and piss off the American playerbase :D
No. No it's not. The original name by the guy who discovered it is Aluminum. Then he changed it to Aluminium to match with other elements on the periodic table. Then he wanted to change it again to Alinum. At this point, everyone had had enough of his s***, and Americans kept THE ORIGINAL name, and brits kept the 2nd one.
So not only is aluminum not a made up word, but every one who says otherwise is electing to say it dumb.
I mean, the guy who discovered it named it Aluminum; British scientists just didn't like that it didn't end in "ium" like a lot of other elements, so tacked the i in there.
Aluminium is actually incorrect when you consider that the person that discovered it actually named it aluminum and a bunch of other scientists or whatever they were said that was a stupid name because of the incorrect pronunciation of the Latin word "alumina". The scientist from England that discovered aluminum then moved to America and the scientists here agreed that Aluminum was correct given the Latin root.
technically America is just behind on the times because aluminum was once an accepted official spelling in 1990 the international union of pure and applied chemistry standardized the spelling aluminium
actually up until the 1990s aluminum WAS accepted as an OFFICIAL spelling so fallout using aluminum wouldn't be incorrect but unfortunately it's not consistent
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So not only is aluminum not a made up word, but every one who says otherwise is electing to say it dumb.
Hope you do something productive in the time you saved by not writing simpe i
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Canada speaks Canadian
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