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Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
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Fri, 9 Mar 2001 15:44:40 GMT
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In article <G9wHCA.1Dr@lugnet.com>, Ross Crawford <rcrawford@csi.com> wrote:
Except on most periodic tables, you'll see it spelt "Aluminium". Most
dictionaries list one as a variant of the other.

And just to add more useless information to this discussion, I threw both
spellings at Google to see which spelling was more often used online:

Aluminum: 1,560,000
Aluminium: 749,000
Both: 56,800

-JDF
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  Re: NOT the Queen's English (was re: Lugnet Guide a lot less convenient today)
 
(...) Except on most periodic tables, you'll see it spelt "Aluminium". Most dictionaries list one as a variant of the other. ROSCO (24 years ago, 8-Mar-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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