Wait, that's how you say that?

[Stormborn]

LOL. Perfect!

Assuming you're not fooling...

Yoot = youth, in a New York accent. In "My Cousin Vinny", Joe Pesci plays a barely-passed-the-bar lawyer from New York, defending his cousin (Ralph Macchio) and his cousin's friend from murder charges in a little town in the South. Ed Gwynn (a.k.a. Herman Munster) played the courtly Southern judge.

Pesci: "So, judge, da two yoots..."

Gwynn: "Excuse me?"

Pesci: "Da yoots."

Gwynn: "Yoots? What's a yoot?"

Ah, particularlly apt that the "little town in the South" was the fictional county of Beechum, Alabama and thus not to different from places and people I am around everyday.

So no, not kidding.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Oh, the horror!

I'm used to hearing "a-loo-min-um" from the poor benighted Americans.

IUPAC recognizes both spellings are acceptable.

Real chemists just call it Al.

 

[Steve Jung]

I can call you Betty
And Betty when you call me
You can call me Al

 

[Talislan]

Oh, the horror!

I'm used to hearing "a-loo-min-um" from the poor benighted Americans.

I've never heard "a-loo-min-ee-um" before. It's like a horrible hybrid.

"al-yoo-min-ee-um", please.

-Hyp.

My apologies Hypersmurf, you are of course correct. I am not very good at the old 'writing things down phonetically'. My main point was directed at the horrific lack of the proper 'ium' at the end of the US 'version' and so thank you for the correction on the formative phonetics to prevent further bastardisation of the English Language.

 

[kolvar]

hehe, and my wife corrects my English-pronounciation (she and me both being German), when not even the native speakers can decide on the correct way. Bad is only, that I start to mix it all up (having learned "oxford" in school, having lived in Wales and watching American movies).

 

[Huw]

IUPAC recognizes both spellings are acceptable.

Real chemists just call it Al.

And engineers call it Ali. Feels friendlier that way.

Anyway, just to further confuse matters, it was originally called alumium.

 

[Zander]

If "alumin(i)um" has at least two pronunciations and "paladin" does as well, how many ways are there to say "pal(l)adium"?

 

[DaveyJones]

...how many ways are there to say "pal(l)adium"?

most gamers i know pronounce it: "junk"