Thread: Happy Birthday to the United States (and screw the wannabes and haters
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Old 07-05-2007, 12:58 AM
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Default Re: Happy Birthday to the United States (and screw the wannabes and ha
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British spellings: Flavour, Aluminium. The latter pronounced 'al-you-min-yum'

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Isn't it even worse than that, as in 'al-you-min-e-um'?


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I may have heard it pronounced with the extra bit (minny-um rather than min-yum) but most here pronounce it the shorter way. Here being southern England, there might be regional variations.
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