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Subject: Re: Apple Computer changes its name
From: "David Wilson" <mcs6502@gmail.com>
Date: 18 Jan 2007 20:15:31 -0800
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Simon D. Williams wrote:
> 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.

And here is another explanation...

http://www.worldwidewords.org/articles/aluminium.htm

Wikipedia seems to agree

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling

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