Re: alumin(i)um
I mean first before Alunimium. Bob S On Sep 6, 2022, at 15:22 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode mailto:use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>> wrote: On 9/6/22 13:53, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: So the theoretical substance was dubbed Aluminum first That's "alumium" first. -- Mark Wieder ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: alumin(i)um
On 9/6/22 13:53, Bob Sneidar via use-livecode wrote: So the theoretical substance was dubbed Aluminum first That's "alumium" first. -- Mark Wieder ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: alumin(i)um
Well, in Scots it's "alumeenium", which just sounds like a Scot suffered from bad spelling. On Tue, 6 Sept 2022, 23:54 Bob Sneidar via use-livecode, < use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > Excerpt from WordOrigins.org: > > In 1808, British chemist Humphry Davy postulated the existence of a > metallic form of alumina ore, which he dubbed alumium. > > Davy later changed the name to aluminum. He writes in his 1812 Elements of > Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly > free state." > > Yet that same year, other British chemists settled on the name aluminium, > the ending of which they thought was more consistent with the other > elements. > > So the theoretical substance was dubbed Aluminum first, but other > scientists decided to call it Aluminium, even though no one knew if it > existed or could exist yet. > > Bob S > > > > > On Sep 6, 2022, at 13:38 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > > > On 9/6/22 13:19, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: > > > >> or the way they spell "favourites", or pronounce "Aluminum". Do you see > an > >> extra "i" in there? No? It's invisible, that's why. > > > > Yeah. About that. > > The "aluminium" version actually preceded "aluminum" by several years, > so if anything the U.S. version is actually the weird one. There are very > few other elements that veer from the standard "ium" suffix into just "um": > molybdenum, lanthanum,, tantalum, platinum, and all of those are transition > metals. > > > > https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium > > > > -- > > Mark Wieder > > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > > ___ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
Re: alumin(i)um
Excerpt from WordOrigins.org: In 1808, British chemist Humphry Davy postulated the existence of a metallic form of alumina ore, which he dubbed alumium. Davy later changed the name to aluminum. He writes in his 1812 Elements of Chemical Philosophy: "As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state." Yet that same year, other British chemists settled on the name aluminium, the ending of which they thought was more consistent with the other elements. So the theoretical substance was dubbed Aluminum first, but other scientists decided to call it Aluminium, even though no one knew if it existed or could exist yet. Bob S > On Sep 6, 2022, at 13:38 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode > wrote: > > On 9/6/22 13:19, Mike Kerner via use-livecode wrote: > >> or the way they spell "favourites", or pronounce "Aluminum". Do you see an >> extra "i" in there? No? It's invisible, that's why. > > Yeah. About that. > The "aluminium" version actually preceded "aluminum" by several years, so if > anything the U.S. version is actually the weird one. There are very few other > elements that veer from the standard "ium" suffix into just "um": molybdenum, > lanthanum,, tantalum, platinum, and all of those are transition metals. > > https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/aluminum-vs-aluminium > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
