: Re: Is it ok to use "aluminium" in an otherwise American English text? I am not an American English native (I'm actually a German native speaker) but, when I write, I use the American style of

Aluminum comes from the word alumina and is the name chosen by the Humphry Davy in 1812 and published throughout the world. "Aluminium" only exists because Thomas Young misspelled it. It's not a color vs colour issue.

The US and Canada were fighting each other in a bloody war at the time, but they both received the correct spelling from across the Atlantic ocean.

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Aluminum is the One True Spelling of the word.

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