[RJL]

Oh, and I was also corrected on the pronunciation of aluminum...it's 'al-you-min-ee-um'. .

Not according to my dictionary, I think you were right the first time.

'al-you-min-ee-um', Where are you getting the "ee" sound from? If it was a French word, the "i" might give us the "ee" sound, but here, the "i" is already being used by the "min" sound.

[Riley]

Ah, I see that you have the same pet peeve as I.

I keep mine in a cage under the stairs and feed it 'A-loo-min-num'. :-)

[cebadams]

Does anyone remember Muni-Mula (name of a planet) from a kids tv show about 40 years ago?

[Willie Green]

Where are you getting the "ee" sound from?

Aluminium is a British spelling.

[DallasMike]

'al-you-min-ee-um', Where are you getting the "ee" sound from?

It's the British pronunciation, though I've never heard it with the 'you' in the second syllable. Probably because I was always so amused by the 'ee' syllable that I wasn't paying attention to anything else.

I had a visiting professor from Mexico my second semester of Physical Chemistry. He pronounced Helium as 'el-ee-oom.' Very funny.

[Doctor Stochastic]

"Are you copper-bottoming 'em, my man?"

No, I'm aluminiuming 'em, mum."