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I'm hearing more and more sports presenters coming out with this way of saying the word congratulations. Is it a Scottish thing to say "congradjulations" or is it a sports presenters thing ? Alan Brazil comes out with it all the time on Talk Sport and it really annoys me 
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Originally Posted by JohnG I'm hearing more and more sports presenters coming out with this way of saying the word congratulations. Is it a Scottish thing to say "congradjulations" or is it a sports presenters thing ? Alan Brazil comes out with it all the time on Talk Sport and it really annoys me | Why listen to Talk Sport  Radio 5 live is better 
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Originally Posted by JohnG I'm hearing more and more sports presenters coming out with this way of saying the word congratulations. Is it a Scottish thing to say "congradjulations" or is it a sports presenters thing ? Alan Brazil comes out with it all the time on Talk Sport and it really annoys me | Sounds 'Americanised' to me. In other words put a stop to it right now! A lot of (too many) Americanisms are creeping into our sporting language. Apart from the important one - 'we won'. 
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22-02-2006, 11:02 AM
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The middle 'i' has disappeared out of medicine, making it "med-cine"
And there's another word that's lost an 'l' from itself that i can't remember at the moment.............. 
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how about aloooooooominum  it always gets me. its aluMINIum
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Originally Posted by JagoPlasma how about aloooooooominum it always gets me. its aluMINIum | Actually - on this one, the Americans have it right, sadly. The word should be aluminum (not that that's going to make me change the way I say or spell it). I can't remember off the top of my head exactly why that's the case - I'm at work at the mo, but I'll check back at home and post it here.
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22-02-2006, 11:48 AM
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well googlefight says aluminum wins  http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...ord2=aluminium
but to me it will always be aluminium.... now wheres that tyre....
but we still kick their ass http://www.googlefight.com/index.php...&word2=british 
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Off the top of my head, I think an American scientist discovered the element aluminium, but went against the generic convetion of having the suffix "ium" on the end of names of elements, and called it aluminum. Americans are the only ones that call it aluminum however.
Still doesn't excuse their pronounciation of "aloooooooooooooominum" though!
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Thanks: Gave 8, Got 3 | That Googlefights funny, not seen it before. Just looked at the last 20 fights and some doofus had aresnal vs real madrid 
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I heard and this could be completely wrong so get your salt ready, that there was a shipment of aluminium (the first i assume) to america and it was spelt wrong with the i and they called it the same ever since.
Looks like thats wrong ^^ http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm
Both were used and one was just prefered over another at the time. No complicated conspircy theory, but it is british and if we say aluminium and we 'invented' it then we are right me thinks .
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Hi,
Shall we move on, to the really fun stuff, like...
... Laboratory (Often said as laboratry or labratory)
... Lavatory (Again, people say lavutree or lavotoree)
And why is the name "Jeremiah" pronounced Je-ri-my-uh, yet "Nehemiah" is pronounced is "Nu-heem-ya"?! 
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