Sir Davy (the guy who named it) originally called it Alumium, but later changed it to Aluminum. Aluminium emerged around the same time, as a change to bring the word more in line with elements like Sodium, but Davy was not the one that proposed the change. Both words have been used interchangeably since their inception in the 1800s and neither have ever been considered wrong.
It's always mystified me that the Americans would use the term "football" to describe a game where the ball hardly ever gets touched by a foot.
Last one before we get the bonk for thread derailment! American football is called as such because it is a derivative of Rugby football (And association football), more commonly know as just Rugby! It's better to think of it as "On-foot ball" meaning a sport played on foot with a ball!
By that logic, you'd have to call both handball, tennis, and golf "football" as well
"Aluminium" is just you Brits putting an extra syllable in an already cromulent word to make yourselves sound smarter. Just like "disorientated." Disoriented works just as well and shaves off valuable fractions of a second that could be better spent on more embiggening activities.
I guarantee you more languages use some form of aluminium than "aluminum". The US is the one spelled wrong"Aluminium" is just you Brits putting an extra syllable in an already cromulent word to make yourselves sound smarter. Just like "disorientated." Disoriented works just as well and shaves off valuable fractions of a second that could be better spent on more embiggening activities.
Hmm, I'm not a Brit and not a Murrican. In fact I'm not even an english native speaker. I just wanted to say "Aluminium" is the name in all languages because that's the name of it. Only in the US they decided to be special snowflakes again.
Because it was obvious. You think you're the only one knowing the Simpsons?Love how you guys were so focused on aluminum, you didn't even notice the 2 words literally made up by the Simpsons.
I think it's missing a cheese topic here.
Alexandre Dumas' opinion, which you're quoting, could be tempered, from a linguistic point of view. For instance, the pronunciation of the word "judge" is pretty close to the pronunciation of the French word "juge", as it was in the 12th century (ˈdʒydʒə)All this discussion about English spelling and pronunciation, when everyone should known that English is just poorly pronounced French.
Alexandre Dumas' opinion, which you're quoting, could be tempered, from a linguistic point of view. For instance, the pronunciation of the word "judge" is pretty close to the pronunciation of the French word "juge", as it was in the 12th century (ˈdʒydʒə)
I don't remember any lesbian harem in the works of both Alexandre Dumas, but what matters is that we like "Actual Roommates"
Personally I particularly like the blonde girl who was straight before she met the MC (I forget her name) 
For American Football, it's pretty much lost all of it's rugby roots. So it's very easy to not notice it. What is now American Football began in Canada, back with earliest found recordings dating back to the 1860s. 1880s are when it really formalized into the "Canadian Rugby Football Union" and was often called "foot ball", yes with the space, and predates the US picking up the sport. It wasn't until 1874 when McGill University (Montreal, Quebec) challenged Harvard University to play that it picked up interest down south.
Are you sure hockey wasn't introduced by Canadians from Nova Scotia, that is to say Scotsmen? There's a Scottish sport named "iomain" in Gaelic which is probably older.
