Parse this: Pentagon fields new Language Corps

sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Tue May 15 14:09:41 UTC 2007


>OT: re "dimunition", does that list of words like "nuptual",
>"intravenious" include the pair "aluminum/aluminium"?

>    - James A. Landau
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Aluminium is standard British, so it's not really in this category.
One of my kids, who went to school in Britain for a year, has said
"aluminium" ever since, though no one else in the family does.
AM
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