Whilst we're on them,
How did aluminium lose its 'i'...?
(Scrumpy does not negotiate with terrorists,, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 17:25, 1 reply)

well...
The guy who discovered it called it aluminum but it was then changed to -ium so that it was inkeeping with all the other metals like strontium, potassium lithium etc, the americans decided to keep with the original nomenclature
(superfly78, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 17:35, closed)

Thank you
for clearing that up.


Lazy shits.
(Scrumpy does not negotiate with terrorists,, Sat 10 Apr 2010, 18:20, closed)