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To: Achilles who wrote (1108)	4/7/1998 7:23:00 PM
From: Jack Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4710

Claude, I guess you're right about the Brits both spelling and pronouncing the metal "aluminium". I have seen it spelled without the "i" and yet pronounced with it by Englishmen. Sir Humphrey Davey in 1809 suggested the name "aluminum", but the name was later modified to aluminium in England. It's interesting to me that Encyclopedia Britannica discusses the metal extensively under the heading ALUMINUM, and only mentions aluminium as a modification used in England and Europe. Jack