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Still the same.
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Actually Davy proposed ALUMIUM - it was only later that instead of deriving from the English "Alum" the preference was to use the Latin alumen to derive the name from. Also although credited as originating the name (in a fashion) he was not the "discoverer" of the element.

You have Mr Webster to thank for the lack of the second i in US usage really - I am not sure if he just hated diphthongs or was just determined to enforce Boston pronunciation on everyone, in any event he is for sure to blame for Churchill's "Americans and British are one people separated by a common language" quip (yes I know Shaw produced the original).

On a separate but related thing (and this is a genuine query) why do Americans pronounce "solder" as "sawder"? That makes no sense to me, I can see that people deprived of familiarity with diphthongs can have difficulty with "buoy" and pronounce it "boo-wee" but "sawder" just baffles me.
I was trained to do NASA grade soldering, but that was never in the curriculum...

It might be a New England thing. Nemo?
 
Hmmm, the pineapple pizza lives of the synergies of cooked ham and pineapple. I think pineapple also goes well with garlic. Maybe spinach? I'm minion to the artichoke but don't think pineapple is going well with that. Btw, what about cheese?
 
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