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(05-18-2021, 01:42 AM)Bengalzona Wrote: Sometimes I listen to British people speaking and some of them (probably a dialect) throw these "r's" into words where there are no "r's". It freaks me out when I hear it. I'm like, "WTF did you just say?!?!?"

And when they try and say "aluminum", I completely go off the deep end! They say, "a-lu-min-ium". Arrrrrgggghhh!!!

There's an easy explanation for that!! The way the metal is spelled in British English ( and likely everywhere else but America) is Aluminium. At some point, us 'muricans decided we're just gonna spell it differently and say it how we spell it.