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Originally Posted by JSWolf
One thing that can drop me out of an audiobook is some UK words. For example, Aluminum is a word that doesn't work for me when it's the UK pronunciation. Aluminum is even spelled differently in the UK (aluminium).
But words like color that are spelled differently in UK English at least sound the same no no problem there.
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Aluminum is a bad example I think. The "ium" ending for elements is pretty standard (uranium, polonium, rubidium etc.), it's odd that US English changes it just for aluminum.