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We say it how we spell it and so do americans.



Officially we do, but lots of people make it sound more like 'aluminyum", still distinctly British rather than American, but not said in a way that someone unfamiliar with the spelling could guess it was 'ium' at the end.

I've got a fairly plain accent, fairly close to Received Pronunciation or BBC/Oxford English, Americans never have a hard time understanding my pronunciation, and even I sound closer to 'aluminyum' or maybe 'aluminiyum' more than a clean 'aluminium', though it still sounds much closer to correctly pronounced British word than to the American version.




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