Timeline for Is it ok to use "aluminium" in an otherwise American English text?
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| Nov 21, 2020 at 21:58 | answer | added | FuturePaleontologist | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Jan 31, 2019 at 9:50 | vote | accept | Trish | ||
| Jan 23, 2019 at 14:22 | comment | added | Chris | @Trish: I got very confused - Sulphur is what we use... Then I looked it up and found that much like aluminium it is spelt differently in different places! :) | |
| Jan 23, 2019 at 1:12 | comment | added | Trish | @opa with that reasoning we would have to use/write the latin/greek variants. For example sulphur, hydragyrum, argentum and aurum fror S, Hg, Ar and Au. But all these are not allowable at all under either IUPAC or any dictionary. And IUPAC has the international right and duty of formalizing a language: Chemistry. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 21:09 | comment | added | Krupip | Despite the standard existing, isn't Aluminum the one that came first, and first coined after criticism of a previous version and in not in the US? Thus IUPAC claiming Aluminium being the "more right" one is just pointless gate-keeping? | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 17:42 | comment | added | Azor Ahai -him- | 99% of your readers won't notice one way or anohter | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 17:26 | comment | added | JMac | @Randal'Thor For a Canadian perspective, I didn't even realize that there were two spellings until I was much older than I would care to admit. I always just thought there as a weird pronunciation tick when some people called it "aluminium". That "i" doesn't really stand out to me. When I see either word I immediately just think of the element regardless. | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 9:21 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | FWIW, this is a very hard difference to spot in written text - your readers might not even notice unless you draw attention to it. (I speak BrE, and when reading the Mistborn trilogy by AmE writer Brandon Sanderson, in which the word aluminium is used a lot, I got as far as book 3 before even noticing the "aluminum" spelling - and when I did notice, I assumed it was a typo until noticing even later that it was consistently spelled that way.) | |
| Jan 22, 2019 at 0:00 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackWriting/status/1087500287424778248 | ||
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 21:42 | answer | added | IKM | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 21, 2019 at 21:30 | comment | added | Alexander | Is your text following the other sources where "aluminium" is predominately used? | |
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| Jan 21, 2019 at 14:59 | history | asked | Trish | CC BY-SA 4.0 |