[ANN] Splat-O-Nym Game Released

Kay C Lan lan.kc.macmail at gmail.com
Sat Oct 4 01:27:24 EDT 2014


On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 12:01 PM, Scott Rossi <scott at tactilemedia.com> wrote:
> I believe the *proper* English spelling is: al-lew-min-nium
>
Americans adopted -ium for most of the 19th century, with aluminium
appearing in Webster's Dictionary of 1828. In 1892, however, Charles
Martin Hall used the -um spelling in an advertising handbill for his
new electrolytic method of producing the metal, despite his constant
use of the -ium spelling in all the patents he filed between 1886 and
1903. Hall's domination of production of the metal ensured that the
spelling aluminum became the standard in North America; the Webster
Unabridged Dictionary of 1913, though, continued to use the -ium
version.

In 1926, the American Chemical Society officially decided to use
aluminum in its publications; American dictionaries typically label
the spelling aluminium as a British variant"




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