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When it gets to Europe it will magically become Aluminium.
If they try to sell us aluminum, we'll send it right back. Only aluminium for us.
The term aluminum was created by the man who first identified the existence of the element, British chemist Humphry Davy. Davy originally referred to the element as aluminum but ultimately altered the name to aluminium.
It's like Soccer. The Brits used to call it soccer, short for Association (football) and only fell out of favour in Britain when they and the Yanks started changing their language usage to be different. Yank's aversion to the letter U in anything, Brits going back to football and a number of other things.
So the original discoverer changed the name? Catch up, America
Don't hold your breath. They dropped the U from almost every word with an O. And Canada, while still close with the UK and uses mostly the "Queen's English"(not saying king's, get stuffed) is close enough to the US to be infected by a lot of their terminology.
Gas not petrol.
Aluminum not aluminium.
Soccer not football.
Queen's English can remain correct if referring to Queen Victoria.
Fair play.