One for Hitcher and Firefox 2.0

[Coyote]

Whenever I spell ass or airplane it comes out as ass and airplane

[Coyote]

It's pronounced al-u-min-i-um, you dorks!

The metal was originally named Aluminum, but it was changed in the UK to coincide with the rest of the '...ium' named elements. So the merkins are half right

[Hitcher]

The metal was originally named Aluminum, but it was changed in the UK to coincide with the rest of the '...ium' named elements. So the merkins are half right

I'd value some authoritative reference for that claim.

[sAsLEX]

I'd value some authoritative reference for that claim.

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

It’s clear that the shift in the USA from –ium to –um took place progressively over a period starting in about 1895, when the metal began to be widely available and the word started to be needed in popular writing. It is easy to imagine journalists turning for confirmation to Webster’s Dictionary, still the most influential work at that time, and adopting its spelling. The official change in the US to the –um spelling happened quite late: the American Chemical Society only adopted it in 1925, though this was clearly in response to the popular shift that had already taken place. The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) officially standardised on aluminium in 1990, though this has done nothing, of course, to change the way people in the US spell it for day to day purposes.

OK I know its only a net source blah blah but it gives some background and this states similar

http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/language.html

and the new source on everything says
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminum#Spelling


So coyote was right and wrong! Was orig named alumium before going on to the two other spellings and the American use of the middle version stems from the Webster dictionary using that during the materials infancy.

[GR81]

for the lemmings...
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

[Sniper]

for the lemmings...
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/2.0/releasenotes/

They look identical to IE7 RC2

[sAsLEX]

They look identical to IE7 RC2

but free and open source goodness!

[GR81]

i use IE7 in Vista, hasnt given me any problems so far.

although i run FireFox at work.

tabs are the reason why i use firefox, but IE7 has them now... so 'either iether''

[Sniper]

I am a microsoft supported. Microsoft are the greastest, they provide only the best.

GR81, what do you think of Vista?

[TerminalAddict]

apparently IE7 will be in tomorrows "black tuesday" updates as a critical update

[limbimtimwim]

Opera has had a spell checker for a while.

Not that I need one.

And not that I am a big an of Opera, but I have to use it on KB because of all the animated gifs. Firefox crawls on my old nail. Opera seems to keep trucking.

[SPORK]

I am a microsoft supported. Microsoft are the greastest, they provide only the best.

GR81, what do you think of Vista?

...Is that a joke?