Re: Question to brits
Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:00 am
I need to get laid..
its in the SI periodic charts actuallyR00k wrote:That's a new one to me. Is it listed that way in UK periodic charts?Geebs wrote:aluminium
that would only hold true if alumina was plural, which it isntR00k wrote:So you use the universal ALUMINA, but refuse to use ALUMINUM, which would be the correct form by Latin standards.phantasmagoria wrote:http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/language.htmlMost of the world have kept the I in ALUMINIUM but it is interesting to note that the name for the metal's oxide, ALUMINA has been universally accepted over its more convoluted alternatives, ALUMINE and ALUMINIA.
I know what you're babbling on about, but that second example is completely wrong, we only do it when the following word has a vowel sound at the start.ToxicBug wrote:"Hondar S2000", "Mazdar 6"
SLR?ToxicBug wrote:Why do you always add an R to the end of a word that finishes with "a"? I always hear Jeremy Clarkson on Top Gear saying "Hondar S2000", "Mazdar 6", etc.
...maybe you'll get some bites in your homo thread...Freakaloin wrote:I need to get laid..
lolMKJ wrote:why do all hicks leave out the l in the word "help"?