Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-29680750-20170502201534/@comment-29773086-20170506104421

Rayn Turammarth wrote: Thindithron the Great wrote: 00Fez wrote: Minecraftmage113 wrote: also, its spelled aluminum, not aluminium or however you spelled it, it just looks wrong, then again this is probably some stupid confliction between american and british english. whoever decided to split the spelling in the language when we broke off from england did not have very good foresight at all

out of curiosity, do other languages have such terrible spelling dialects as english does (the one that really got be was the english spelling of jooal or however it was rather than jewel) We spell it aluminium and say al-you-min-yum or something along those lines. No, you don't. The UK pronounciation (not the retarded American one) is 'al-u-min-i-um'. The US pronunciation is 'a-lu-min-um'. Americans also spell it differently, aluminum as opposed to aluminium. I actually pronounce it as Aloominum, despite NZ using UK English. It's just a lot easier to say, less syllables.

I'm the opposite. No matter how hard a word is to say, I endeavour to say it correctly.

I can't understand this 'NZ accent' thing that people outside our country are fixated on, though. I have never heard a Kiwi pronounce 'six' as 'sex', or 'deck' to 'dick', only Australians. I have never heard a Kiwi say 'fush snd chups' rather than 'fish and chips'. I have never heard a Kiwi say 'pin' rather than 'pen'. Do you know what they're all on about?