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All kids need a rubber to start school....

how the heck did an element gain an additional syllable? (alluminum)

Or a camera lose 1 and gain 5 letters?

And what has one of Charlie's angels got to do with a tap?

BirdsofBC wrote in post #19440030
how the heck did an element gain an additional syllable? (alluminum)

Don’t start me on that one!
Blame Sir Humphrey Davy - he of the eponymous safety lamp. He originally called the metal that he isolated from alumina “aluminum”. This was anonymously corrected to “aluminium” - in part for consistency with other metals ending ium and in part to give a little Latin culture. IUPAC prefers the ending ium for metals but accepts both aluminum and aluminium.

Lecture over. (Sorry, I am on the IUPAC nomenclature committee).

Choderboy wrote in post #19440034
And what has one of Charlie's angels got to do with a tap?

unfortunately, that discussion is dead.

Not to mention fanny.

ECC233 wrote in post #19440037
Don’t start me on that one!
Blame Sir Humphrey Davy - he of the eponymous safety lamp. He originally called the metal that he isolated from alumina “aluminum”. This was anonymously corrected to “aluminium” - in part for consistency with other metals ending ium and in part to give a little Latin culture. IUPAC prefers the ending ium for metals but accepts both aluminum and aluminium.

Lecture over. (Sorry, I am on the IUPAC nomenclature committee).

I'm actually investing in Unobtainium.

avondale87 wrote in post #19440020
Footpath in streets.
We have the pavement (bit you drive on), kerb (concrete gutter at edge of pavement), nature strip then footpath or footpath then nature strip followed by property boundary.

A footpath in US usage is "a narrow path for persons on foot; especially, one along the side of a highway" (American Heritage Dictionary). "Footpath" to me suggests that the strip for walking is unpaved, but the dictionary disagrees.

We have many regional names for what you call a nature strip.

OhLook wrote in post #19440216
A footpath in US usage is "a narrow path for persons on foot; especially, one along the side of a highway" (American Heritage Dictionary). "Footpath" to me suggests that the strip for walking is unpaved, but the dictionary disagrees.

We have many regional names for what you call a nature strip.

OH our footpath is an engineering,council, shire term.
Legal terms differ and stem from early English terminology.
I'm wondering if some of your terms are both legal and domestic. Ie the common "domestic" use is actually the same as the legal term, if you get my drift.

BirdsofBC wrote in post #19440044
unfortunately, that discussion is dead.

I think I got beaten in Dad joke category.

avondale87 wrote in post #19440344
I'm wondering if some of your terms are both legal and domestic. Ie the common "domestic" use is actually the same as the legal term, if you get my drift.

I don't know, since I don't have the definitions of legal terms. One thing is for sure, the meaning of "highway" has changed over history and still varies depending on the context.

OhLook wrote in post #19440417
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One thing is for sure, the meaning of "highway" has changed over history and still varies depending on the context..

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I have been guilty of using "highway" to refer to a freeway, and have been immediately corrected by the friends I was speaking with. . I believe that 30 or 40 years ago, "highway" would have been correct, or at least acceptable, but many people now make a sharp distinction between freeways and highways.

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Tom Reichner wrote in post #19440564
I have been guilty of using "highway" to refer to a freeway, and have been immediately corrected by the friends I was speaking with.

Your use wasn't incorrect. A freeway is one kind of highway.

Highway

Freeway

My computer is is set to Canuck so I type colour but in the US it is color. Not sure what people see here. I get a spelling error with color. When I refer to colour profiles in editing software I use color when referring to how it is spelt on the software.