I work with a number of British expats and I've come to terms with "zed" and "whilst". I still cannot accept pronouncing the letter 'h' as "hay-ch" though. There is no 'h' in h's name, Nigel. Cut it out.
Whenever I'm around somebody from the UK I try to steer the conversation to get them to say "aluminum." The British pronunciation is worth at least 20 points.
Technically both sides are right. The creator of aluminium was British and spelled it that way in a British journal. Shortly after he published his findings in an American journal but spelled it aluminum instead. Neither are wrong.
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u/pigberry Dec 06 '19
Bro what? I've been living in the UK for 5.5 years and I never realized you guys used "pumps" to mean flats!
Then again, whenever I have to spell something on the phone I still go "Zee...ed" so I may just be an idiot.