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Ketsu said:
Actually, the person who discovered aluminum renamed the element from "aluminium" to "aluminum". We Americans dutifully adopted the new name, while you silly English/British/people-who-live-in-the-various-parts-of-the-UK complained about element #13 not fitting the pattern.
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Clearly you are not a scientist. When things are named in science, they bloody well stay named.
 
Blastoise said:
Hmm. I suppose you're right. Although I feel we have reached a plateau of meaningless caveats...

Do you guys have any fireworks-related holidays? :)?
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Guy Fawkes Night, obviously! And New Years' always involves fireworks!
 
Well, he failed, didn't he? Any excuse to set things on fire and have a drunken rave.
 
Blastoise said:
I suppose it's the same reasoning behind you guys (do all European English-speakers do this or just Englanders?) calling wrenches 'spanners' even though they do not span anything. They wrench things.
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When was the last time your dinner dinned?
 
I was gonna rant about terrible language and that, but then I remembered that I use so much wenglish that it'd be hypocritical.
Some examples include 'now in a minute', 'over by there' and the ever present 'who's coat is that jacket hanging over by there on the floor'.
 
Oh my god, I LOVE the Welsh use of the word "now". It's fantastic XD

Also, the identical pronounciation of "ear", "year" and "here".

I miss my Welsh BFF ):
 
How do other people use the word 'now'? o.o
I honestly can't imagine someone using the word now to mean they're actually gonna do something now. I try to picture it, but they always do it later! D:
 
Oh no, really? My friend and her entire family in Merthyr (which is basically half of Merthyr) all say "yurr". It's adorable!
 
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