• psud@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time

      America kept the old word. I’m half surprised America doesn’t call gold aurium

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          11 months ago

          Im saying that it’s not a typo if the creator of a word spells it a certain way multiple times in a book. They clearly meant to spell it that way when they were writing the book.