(October 27, 2010 at 5:20 pm)Saerules Wrote: I rather don't understand the point of removing the letter i from the names of states. I don't have any particular love of them as it is... but it seems rather pointless to me. Aluminum doesn't need a second i, either.
You brits are superfluous.
Yeah but you have to say it ah-loo-mi-num and end up sounding like a complete twat in the process because it sounds like it could be a separate word, Aluminium is how all the cool people say it.
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