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Unread 09-17-2003, 12:58 PM   #16
Zhentar
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adding extra u's is just silly, it makes words longer and makes them look funny, and they're spelled different then they sound.

And its Aluminum. It was originally named Aluminum, but then it was changed to Aluminium to make it sound like a metal. Then in the 1950s, us americans realized how ridiculous aluminium sounds, so we changed it back to Aluminum. At that time the US made more aluminum than any other country so therefore we were right and you guys weren't.
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