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Subject: Re: Apple Computer changes its name
From: "Simon D. Williams" <bb065@chebucto.ns.ca>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 23:56:36 -0400
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On 18 Jan 2007, mdj wrote:

> I share your disdain for such mispronunciations and grammatical
> distortions, but until you lot start pronouncing "aluminium" correctly
> I have no sympathy ;-)
> 
> /me ducks, runs for the hills :-)

I do believe that's one instance where the Queen's English is at fault.
The story I've been told (by my Italian father) is that the contentious
"i" was the result of a typo at the British patent office.
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