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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;calcol, post: 3638772, member: 77639&quot;]Actually &quot;aluminum&quot; is purely American and Canadian.&nbsp; Anglos (i.e. UK) and most of the former British empire use &quot;aluminium&quot;.&nbsp; I remember an Australian making fun of my use of &quot;aluminum&quot;.&nbsp; &nbsp; The &quot;um&quot; spelling&nbsp; was the original.&nbsp; Then a British scientist, Thomas Young, changed it to &quot;ium&quot; in 1812, and it was accepted even in the US.&nbsp;&nbsp; Then Noah Webster decided that &quot;um&quot; was correct, so it was in Webster&#039;s US dictionaries and eventually became the common spelling in the US.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There have been aluminum US coins ... all patterns&nbsp; ... all very valuable.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cal[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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