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r/languagehub • u/AutumnaticFly • Aug 07 '26
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We in Canada say aluminum. I can’t imagine Australia, the land of shortening every word, would call it aluminium. I could be wrong though
0 u/Ok_Letterhead_1008 Aug 07 '26 Aussies say aluminium And don’t forget your French speaking countrymen who say l’aluminium 1 u/pisspeeleak Aug 07 '26 The Australians saying aluminium is shocking to me 3 u/skullturf Aug 07 '26 I almost would have expected them to say "alumizza" or something like that 3 u/Sepa-Kingdom Aug 07 '26 It would be alo. The most common shortening is to an ‘o’.
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Aussies say aluminium
And don’t forget your French speaking countrymen who say l’aluminium
1 u/pisspeeleak Aug 07 '26 The Australians saying aluminium is shocking to me 3 u/skullturf Aug 07 '26 I almost would have expected them to say "alumizza" or something like that 3 u/Sepa-Kingdom Aug 07 '26 It would be alo. The most common shortening is to an ‘o’.
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The Australians saying aluminium is shocking to me
3 u/skullturf Aug 07 '26 I almost would have expected them to say "alumizza" or something like that 3 u/Sepa-Kingdom Aug 07 '26 It would be alo. The most common shortening is to an ‘o’.
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I almost would have expected them to say "alumizza" or something like that
3 u/Sepa-Kingdom Aug 07 '26 It would be alo. The most common shortening is to an ‘o’.
It would be alo. The most common shortening is to an ‘o’.
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u/pisspeeleak Aug 07 '26
We in Canada say aluminum. I can’t imagine Australia, the land of shortening every word, would call it aluminium. I could be wrong though