Comment by zacharyvoase

5 days ago

AluminIum you say?

The name makes sense because Aluminium has an -ium suffix like Chromium. There's also no reason for the project name to agree with the US pronunciation of the element.

  • Well, it makes sense and it doesn't because it makes it sound like this is a 'lightweight' version of the Chromium-based products while the opposite seems to be true. Call it Osmium instead, that's got '-ium' and some weight to it just like this thing.

    • I appreciate your understanding of the Table Of Elements and their properties, but I don't think most people will care about the weight.

      Maybe Osmium is/will-be an OS for their cloud clustering in future. IE something more heavyweight...

My dad always pronounced it a-luna-min, so my whole life I thought that there were 3 pronunciations, and the fact that there are only two correct ones feels strange to me. Not sure where he got that from, maybe he had special metal from the moon.