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[The Fury]

Rath said:

The Fury said:

Kantor said:

For Russians, if there are any: How do you feel about Putin at the moment?

Couldn't find one but I'd like to hear an answer to this one.

 

Just wondering, why do North American's say the word route as 'rout'?

Out of all the mispronunciations this concerns me the most. Don't worry, us Brits butcher our own language too.

For me the annoying one is aluminium. It's not aluminum, there's another 'i' in there!

That one I understand, the American spelling is Aluminum. So they say it as they spell it but where Aluminum is a recognised word just looking back American's just stopped using it. At some point in the US it changed and even though scientists used it as -ium in the 1800s they changed it (well, so says wiki),