They pronounce it.... Al-you-mini-um. Erryone knows it's pronounced..... Uh-loo-men-um. It's perplexing.
Why? Because they're not 'merican and are upset they aren't so they need to try to make up shit to try and prove to themselves that they don't want to be and aren't upset they aren't. Bunch of meat boilers, snail eaters and soccer floppers.
It started as aluminum and then the global government decided that it should be aluminium to be in line with metals like strontium chromium titanium and even americium (yes named after your favorite country) but America, in true form, said up yours so here we are, it is the simple things that give us pleasure!
"In 1808, Sir Humphry Davy identified the existence of the metal in alum, which he at first named "alumium" and later "aluminum." Davy proposed the name aluminum when referring to the element in his 1812 book Elements of Chemical Philosophy, despite his previous use of "alumium." The official name "aluminium" was adopted to conform with the -ium names of most other elements. The 1828 Webster's Dictionary used the "aluminum" spelling, which it maintained in later editions. In 1925, the American Chemical Society (ACS) decided to go from aluminium back to the original aluminum, putting the United States in the "aluminum" group. In recent years, the IUPAC had identified "aluminium" as the proper spelling, but it didn't catch on in North America, since the ACS used aluminum. The IUPAC periodic table presently lists both spellings and says both words are perfectly acceptable. "
Im suspect of anyone who uses the Al-um-in-ium pronunciation as they are obviously some type of wierdo, foreign, commie sympathizer. Unless they're Australian. Aussies rock and dont put up with that commie $hit and are OK in my book.