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[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I use the same metric and use the English pronunciation of words as an American.l, because they're correct and we are wrong.

I'm considered a hipster douche for it.

Others are correct to say so.

Al-uuuuu-min-eee-umm

Yaw-gert

Tuh-mot-o

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aluminum was an either or from the start and it just happened which side of the ocean got which and that they weren’t the same