Tuesday, August 13, 2002, 10:11:01 AM, you wrote: >> See even of the numbers were close, Aluminum has a larger number of >> characters in the sentence that proves that aluminum is correct. SO >> not only are the numbers on my side here, the letters are too, and >> since the word aluminium is made up of letters, the truth becomes >> self-evident.
PAA> So, if we're looking at numbers, since there's more McDonalds PAA> restaraunts around, so it's the best food, right? <g> As a matter of fact I was speaking to a German guy this morning about McDonalds. He raved about the quality of the burgers. PAA> Oh, and the Websters dictionary entry PAA> Aluminum; see Aluminium PAA> So, according to Websters, Aluminium is the correct entry :-P Etymology: New Latin, from alumina Not aluminia.... PAA> (No I don't mean m-w.com as it's an American dictionary online) I see...I think it's just that the online version is updated more often and since they keep spelling aluminum wrong in the print version no one will buy it, so they can't even afford a new corrected printing. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
