Why do Americans spell Aluminium Wrong?
Alright, I looked up the history of the spelling of Aluminum. We Americans don’t, in truth, spell it incorrectly. There are simply two variant spellings. See below: “Etymology/nomenclature history The earliest citation given in the Oxford English Dictionary for any word used as a name for this element is alumium, which Humphry Davy employed in 1808 for the metal he was trying to isolate electrolytically from the mineral alumina. The citation is from his journal Philosophical Transactions: “Had I been so fortunate as..to have procured the metallic substances I was in search of, I should have proposed for them the names of silicium, alumium, zirconium, and glucium.” [11] By 1812, Davy had settled on aluminum, which, as other sources note, matches its Latin root. He wrote in the journal Chemical Philosophy: “As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state.”[12] But the same year, an anonymous contributor to the Quarterly Review, a British political-literary journal, object
