vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 8:16 am
What does that have to do with anything? By the way--aeroplane has beauty. 'Airplane' is fucking ugly. The words aero and air are not interchangeable. They have subtly different meanings. Do you say 'airdynamics'? 'Airnautical'. I hated Hemingway anyway. Always killing something or other. Trying to prove how 'manly' he was, due to the fact that he had a famously minute penis.
It's only your idiot friend who's quibbling about the number of letters in words. Take it up with him.
Ofc there are some idiots who'll believe in the archaic prefix: aero. People like that are entitled to their stubbornly, stupid opinions as they like the sound of it (just like the British like the sound of petroleum).
''This name did catch on: while the -um spelling was occasionally used in Britain, the American scientific language used -ium from the start. Most scientists used -ium throughout the world in the 19th century;it still remains the standard in most other languages. In 1828, American lexicographer Noah Webster used exclusively the aluminum spelling in his American Dictionary of the English Language. In the 1830s, the -um spelling started to gain usage in the United States; by the 1860s, it had become the more common spelling there outside science.
I might have guessed. That bloody prik Noah Webster again and his wretched MikDikshinree.
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''This name did catch on: while the -um spelling was occasionally used in Britain, the American scientific language used -ium from the start. Most scientists used -ium throughout the world in the 19th century;it still remains the standard in most other languages. In 1828, American lexicographer Noah Webster used exclusively the aluminum spelling in his American Dictionary of the English Language. In the 1830s, the -um spelling started to gain usage in the United States; by the 1860s, it had become the more common spelling there outside science.
I might have guessed. That bloody prik Noah Webster again and his wretched MikDikshinree.
Not with the word aluminum (read your Oxford Dictionary). Btw there's no such thing as a McDictionary except in people's fanciful minds (urban slang).
That's funny, since you haven't stopped going on about it in all the years I've posted. How do you even function? Can you work out how to wipe your own arse, or do you have to get your dog to lick it?
vegetariantaxidermy wrote: ↑Fri Mar 30, 2018 10:29 am
That's funny, since you haven't stopped going on about it in all the years I've posted. How do you even function? Can you work out how to wipe your own arse, or do you have to get your dog to lick it?
Even if you were my dog, I wouldn't let you touch it.
"Why is it always the Americans on here who don't understand even the most logical and easily-understood points?"
Mebbe those points aren't as logical or as easily-understood as you think.
Is it posssible those points are nonsensical and impossible to understand?
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"Are they really as stupid as they seem, or is it something to do with culture and being brought up to believe that their country is beyond reproach in everything?"
Well, me: I'm dumb as a brick.
America: yeah, she ain't pure, but only an idiot burns down his own house cuz the wallpaper is ugly and the plumbing knocks. We fix what we can and live with the rest.
Can't see what concern of yours it is to begin with. I doubt America or Americans have injured you directly and you certainly don't come across as an empathetic type (overly concerned about others, especially strangers), so: what exactly is your beef with America and Americans?
