Re: CLEAR EYE #1: Bank Security

Dave Bird <dav...@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

> In article<1gp7j3b.1ow1gmps2mneyN%email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com>,
> Simon Williams <email@DELETE_THIS.luddite.no-ip.com> writes:
> >Balaam's Miracle <don...@invalidemailaddress.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 15:00:42 GMT, Faux_Pseudo  
> >> <Fau...@yahoo.comERCIAL> wrote:
> >> 
> >> > [1] Aluminum is the correct word....
> >> 
> >> Since we're on the subject of language, aluminium is the correct word.
> >
> >I believe "aluminium" was a typo at the British patent office, or
> >something of the sort... pretty sure the original spelling is
> >"aluminum".
> 
>  And I am pretty sure you are in error, given the other element names
> 
>  1         2          3         4       5         6        7      0
>  Hydrogen                                                         HELIUM
>  LITHIUM   BERYLLIUM  Boron     Carbon  Nitrogen  Oxygen Fluorine Neon
>  SODIUM    MAGNESIUM  ALUMINIUM Silicon PhosphorusSulphurChlorine Argon
>  POTASSIUM CALCIUM    SCANDIUM...
> 
>  They are all "-ium" pattern, even one "-inium" (Praeseodyniym),
>  and none of them on the pattern Sodumb, Potassum, Calsum, etc. 

From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling:

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   The official IUPAC spelling of the element is aluminium; however,
   Americans and Canadians generally spell and pronounce it aluminum.

   In 1808, Humphry Davy originally proposed the name alumium whilst
   trying to electrolytically isolate the new metal from the mineral
   alumina. A couple of years later he changed the name to aluminum to
   match its Latin root, but was finally persuaded to restore the -ium
   ending in 1812 giving aluminium. This had the advantage of conforming
   to the -ium suffix precedent set by other newly discovered elements
of
   the period potassium, sodium, magnesium, calcium, and strontium (all
   of which Davy had isolated himself). However, for the next thirty
   years, both the -um and -ium endings were used in the scientific
   literature.

   Curiously America adopted the -ium for most of the 19th century with
   aluminium appearing in Webster&#8217;s Dictionary of 1828. However
   Charles Martin Hall selected the -um spelling in an advertising
   handbill for his new efficient electrolytic method for the production
   of aluminium, four years after he had patented the process in 1888.
   Although this spelling may have been an accident, Hall's domination
of
   aluminium production ensured that the -um ending became the standard
   in North America, even though the Webster Unabridged Dictionary of
   1913 continued to use the -ium version. In 1926 the American Chemical
   Society decided officially to use aluminum in its publications.

   Meanwhile most of Europe had standardised on the -ium spelling. In
   1990 the IUPAC adopted aluminium as the standard international name
   for the element. Aluminium is also the name used in French, Dutch,
   German, Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish; Italian uses alluminio,
   Portuguese alummnio and Spanish aluminio. (The use of these words in
   these other languages is one of the reasons IUPAC chose aluminium
over
   aluminum.) In 1993, IUPAC recognized aluminum as an acceptable
   variant, but still prefers the use of aluminium."


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