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Old 05-21-2009, 05:05 PM   #121
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Really? I haven't seen it yet; I watch on DVD. The little bit I saw was from last season's Dr. Who finale. From what i saw it looked like utter dreck.
Your assessment is totally correct - but it was in my childhood
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:08 PM   #122
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Really? I haven't seen it yet; I watch on DVD. The little bit I saw was from last season's Dr. Who finale. From what i saw it looked like utter dreck.
It is, it's the slimy bottom of dreck. And I watched every episode. It's sort of that train wreck syndrome, so horrible that you can't bear not to watch. It was meant to be a kiddie show, but it is just awful. And I can't not watch it. Sara Jane, Romana, and now Donna were always my favorite companions.
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:13 PM   #123
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It is, it's the slimy bottom of dreck. And I watched every episode. It's sort of that train wreck syndrome, so horrible that you can't bear not to watch. It was meant to be a kiddie show, but it is just awful. And I can't not watch it. Sara Jane, Romana, and now Donna were always my favorite companions.
I will add the sarah jane in my childhood was the Doctors assistant - but I kind of got that train wreck thing going on when they started the kids show
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:26 PM   #124
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Neither is incorrect. But Aluminium is more correct than Aluminum

The person who named it was Sir Humphrey Davy, and after dithering a bit, he settled on aluminium in 1812. Among chemists throughout the 1800s, the preferred spelling was aluminium. Unfortunately Websters Dictionary of 1838 gave aluminum, corrected in the 1913 Websters Unabridged Dictionary, which gave aluminium as the only spelling.

But by 1913 it was too late. Up to about 1890 aluminium was rare and expensive because it was so difficult to isolate. But from about 1890 onwards, with the introduction of the Bayer process of refining bauxite to alumina, and the Hall-Héroult process of reducing alumina to aluminium, it became widely available and written about. And any American checking the popular Websters dictionary would find it spelled aluminum.

So in the first couple of decades of the 20th Century, aluminum became so much the preferred spelling in America, that the American Chemical Society officially adopted that spelling in 1925.

The other spelling has had the last word though. In 1990, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardised on aluminium.



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Yeah, I was under the impression for a long time that this was just illiteracy on the part of Americans but I have a vague recollection of reading somewhere that 'aluminum' was the more historically correct spelling.
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:27 PM   #125
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The other spelling has had the last word though. In 1990, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardized on aluminium.
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:27 PM   #126
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Neither is incorrect. But Aluminium is more correct than Aluminum

The person who named it was Sir Humphrey Davy, and after dithering a bit, he settled on aluminium in 1812. Among chemists throughout the 1800s, the preferred spelling was aluminium. Unfortunately Webster's Dictionary of 1838 gave aluminum, corrected in the 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, which gave Aluminium as the only spelling.

But by 1913 it was too late. Up to about 1890 Aluminium was rare and expensive because it was so difficult to isolate. But from about 1890 onwards, with the introduction of the Bayer process of refining bauxite to alumina, and the Hall-Héroult process of reducing alumina to aluminium, it became widely available and written about. An any American checking the popular Websters dictionary would find it spelled aluminum.

So in the first couple of decades of the 20th Century, aluminum became so much the preferred spelling in America, that the American Chemical Society officially adopted that spelling in 1925.

The other spelling has had the last word though. In 1990, the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardised on aluminium.
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:30 PM   #127
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Fixed it for you!
You Americans and your zeds (yes, 'zeds', not 'zees')!
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You Americans and your zeds (yes, 'zeds', not 'zees')!
Zed is an uncle (Uncle Zed), but zee is an alphabet. Y'all ain't right.
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Old 05-21-2009, 05:32 PM   #130
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Zed is an uncle (Uncle Zed), but zee is an alphabet. Y'all ain't right.
No Zed is in the alphabet and Uncle Zed is a moonshiner
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He's BOTH!
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Zed is an uncle (Uncle Zed), but zee is an alphabet. Y'all ain't right.
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Perhaps we should ask Queen Zee?
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And their silly alphabet tune that makes you rush through the middle of the alphabet. lmnop indeed.

The tune I learned for the alphabet had a steady rhythm, with a good pause for breath after M.

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