Why do English people struggle too pronounce words proper

ubersonic said:
Britain changed it's pronunciation of it but America didn't.

It was originally Alumium, they used Aluminum, we later changed ours to Aluminium.
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Going by naming convention of elements the Americans are actually correct. It should be Aluminum. Most up the point were ums not iums. Platinum, Molybdenum, Tantalum. Then Humphrey Davy came along and just decided to play havoc because ium sounds so much cooler!
 
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We can't talk, we cant spell, what can we do? :(

Eat?! :D

ttaskmaster said:
Compare words and phrases we use now, to how they were originally pronounced, in England, 200 years ago.

Language evolves.
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As do humans right? Meaning we should be superhumans soon and flying around the galaxy!
 
bloodiedathame said:
The worst thing that the BBC are doing at the moment is adding "so called" to everything that has a name.

So-called Isis.
So-called Black Friday.

You listen out, you'll hear it. Utterly frustrating.
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The BBC using 'so-called Islamic State' is a response to MPs objecting to the use of 'Islamic State'. There were concerns that using 'Islamic State' could be seen as legitimising the group or, worse yet, confusing people into thinking the terrorist group is an actual state. As well as that, it's no different from using 'self-styled saviour of Rock music' etc.

'So-called Black Friday' is probably because 'Black Friday', that crazy shopping frenzy, is an American term that is probably unfamiliar to a lot of British or international readers. In a similar vein, 'Black Wednesday' is recognizable to Brits but presumably a lot less so to most Americans.
 
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