Curious George

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Wednesday, February 16, 2005

Today's Question

Why do Americans say Alúminùm, while Brits (and most of the rest of the world) say Aluminium... our way is of course the right way, but why do Americans insist on pronuncing this word wrong?

And this question IS posed to YOU - so DO answer it if you have a proper answer - or even if you don't.

1 Comments:

  • At 1:26 PM, Blogger MOVIEMAN said…

    All I can say is that that's how we were taught to say it.

     

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