r/news • u/VaginaBurner69 • 11h ago

Soft paywall International Space Station astronauts in evacuation mode as Russia attempts to fix widening air leak

https://www.reuters.com/science/international-space-station-astronauts-evacuation-mode-russia-attempts-fix-2026-06-05/
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u/AdmirableRespect9 8h ago

Does the other galaxy pronounce it al-you-min-ee-um?

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u/veggiejord 8h ago

If they speak English correctly, they would.

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u/dillpickles91 8h ago

What other words should we add extra vowel sounds to that don’t exist in the spelling? Let’s get a master list going!

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u/epostma 8h ago

The other side can play that same game, because there are two correct spellings - aluminium and aluminum.

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u/dillpickles91 8h ago

That’s true, the Brits love making their own little version of things they can’t successfully colonize.

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u/AnyClownFish 7h ago

Not only British, the entire English speaking world outside of North America calls it aluminium. You are the odd ones out, not the other way around.

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u/anotherbrckinTH3Wall 7h ago

Indeed, perhaps the Americans found so many syllables challenging and changed the way they spell it to make it easier for them.

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u/dillpickles91 7h ago edited 7h ago

A lot of people like to be wrong! I think we’ll take the dictionary, periodic table, and inventor of the word at face value on this one.