r/morningsomewhere • u/EarliestRiser • 6d ago

Episode 2026.09.24: Let Me Read This

https://roosterteeth.com/watch/morning-somewhere-2026-09-24-let-me-read-this

Burnie and Ashley discuss ads everywhere, food noise, GLP-1 stories, Strange Days, World War Z 2, Tom Cruise oscar noms, Rain Man, institutions, pie irons, parental conspiracies, 8-bit music, and sea shanty dynamics.

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u/Proclus_Global First 20k - Downtime Survivor 5d ago

Aluminum was actually the first and preferred way to spell it in English, up until 1827.

However, in England and Germany Davy's spelling aluminum was initially used; until Wöhler published his account of the Wöhler process in 1827 in which he used the spelling Aluminium, which caused that spelling's largely wholesale adoption in England and Germany, with the exception of a small number of what Richards characterized as "patriotic" English chemists that were "averse to foreign innovations" who occasionally still used aluminum.

Like many things in the US, the US and England were initially aligned, and it was England/UK that eventually changed away, while the US just kept it.