Uh Oh! Metrication?

[--Pete]

Hi,

I'd just like to point out that aluminIum sounds better than aluminum(which is spoken much like having your mouth full), and keeps with the tradition of naming most metals -ium(notable exceptions being platinum, cuprum aka copper, and aurum aka gold. I can see myself pronouncing aurium, and probably cuprium but platinium would be a bit odd.)  :lol:
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So, to summarize, "-minium" sounds better (to your ear) than does "-minum", but "-tinium" worse than "-tinum". Interesting aural processing you have :)

As to ". . . keeps with the tradition of naming most metals -ium . . .", the operative word is 'most'. To follow tradition simply for the sake of tradition? "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

--Pete