BURRY STANDER SHIRT DISQUALIFICATION ??????WTF

[Pronutro]

You mean .never. ?

 

Or never ?

 

I mean, not never. Which is to confess guilt.

[kosmonooit]

Yea gotya just playing with syntax, i am old skool

[Tumbleweed]

I'm more worried about Sin Tax...how much has beer gone up?

['Dale]

I'm more worried about Sin Tax...how much has beer gone up?

 

:D

[Let's Ride]

Who cares about him?

[The Drongo]

@Twits

 

The lot of you.

[Agteros]

I'm more worried about Sin Tax...how much has beer gone up?

Which team does Sin Tax ride for?

[onetrackmind]

Which team does Sin Tax ride for?

Amore e Vita?

[Shebeen]

What is alu? a true grammer nazi would not make the mistake of using a non-english abbreviation of Aluminium, so its either the full word or Al

I do believe that alu is an accepted abbreviation for frame material in cycling parlance. Yes, this is a car but being driven by Burry who is a cyclist so we could use him as a reference for tools/machines and the like.

NOW if your rant was that I had misspelt it in full as ALUMINUM, then you'd have a case.

 

or would you?

 

The Americans are in the minority on this one, but they’re not entirely alone. Canadians, for example, call the metal “aluminum” too. And there are several other elements in the periodic table that end in “um”: molybdenum, tantalum, platinum, and lanthanum. But the fact that most of the other elements end in “ium” isn’t much of an argument.

 

So why do the Americans use one “i” and the Brits two for this word? Here’s the story.

 

In 1808 Sir Humphry Davy, the British chemist who discovered the metal, named it “alumium.” With just one “i” and an “ium” ending, it straddled the two competing versions we have today.

Four years later, however, Davy changed his mind and gave the metal the name “aluminum” (yup, the one-”i” American version). In his book Elements of Chemical Philosophy, published in 1812, Davy wrote, “As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state. “

But later that same year other scientists decided “aluminum” didn’t sound sufficiently Latin, so they began calling it “aluminium.” Here’s a quote from the Quarterly Review: “Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.”

The scientists also perhaps believed the “ium” ending was more consistent with other elements. However, “aluminum,” as we know, isn’t the only element to break the “ium” pattern. Not to mention the elements with entirely different names, like gold, copper, zinc, nickel, sulfur, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, boron, argon, krypton, iron, tungsten, neon, mercury, iodine, tin, and others.

At any rate, throughout the 19th century, both “aluminum” and “aluminium” could be found in the US as well as in Britain, though the “ium” ending was predominant in British English.

This was such a rare metal in the 1800s, though, that we’re not talking about a common household word; it was mainly known among scientists.

Only at the turn of the century, when production on a large scale became practical, did the name of the metal start becoming a familiar word. And that’s when Americans – after some to-ing and fro-ing, of course – began to clearly prefer the simpler “aluminum” (which had been favored, incidentally, by Noah Webster).

Eventually “aluminum” became the standard name for the metal in North America and was officially adopted in the 1920s by the American Chemical Society.

Elsewhere, though, scientists generally use “aluminium.” The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry uses “aluminium” as the standard international spelling but also recognizes “aluminum” as a variant.

[Stretch]

I do believe that alu .......american spelling definition of al

 

no rant - I was just pulling your chain - i love grammar nazi's

Edited February 22, 2012 by Stretch

[onetrackmind]

And there are several other elements in the periodic table that end in “um”

 

If I remember Chemistry properly, they all start with "ummmmm"

[Caerus]

So after reading 9 pages and 140 odd replies, seen the picture of him wearing the kit, what was actually the problem? Did I miss this or do I need to go back and read it all again.

[Agteros]

If I remember Chemistry properly, they all start with "ummmmm"

 

Hierdie thread is vol Strontium

[Captain Fastbastard Mayhem]

 

I do believe that alu is an accepted abbreviation for frame material in cycling parlance. Yes, this is a car but being driven by Burry who is a cyclist so we could use him as a reference for tools/machines and the like.

NOW if your rant was that I had misspelt it in full as ALUMINUM, then you'd have a case.

 

or would you?

 

 

The Americans are in the minority on this one, but they’re not entirely alone. Canadians, for example, call the metal “aluminum” too. And there are several other elements in the periodic table that end in “um”: molybdenum, tantalum, platinum, and lanthanum. But the fact that most of the other elements end in “ium” isn’t much of an argument.

 

So why do the Americans use one “i” and the Brits two for this word? Here’s the story.

 

In 1808 Sir Humphry Davy, the British chemist who discovered the metal, named it “alumium.” With just one “i” and an “ium” ending, it straddled the two competing versions we have today.

Four years later, however, Davy changed his mind and gave the metal the name “aluminum” (yup, the one-”i” American version). In his book Elements of Chemical Philosophy, published in 1812, Davy wrote, “As yet Aluminum has not been obtained in a perfectly free state. “

But later that same year other scientists decided “aluminum” didn’t sound sufficiently Latin, so they began calling it “aluminium.” Here’s a quote from the Quarterly Review: “Aluminium, for so we shall take the liberty of writing the word, in preference to aluminum, which has a less classical sound.”

The scientists also perhaps believed the “ium” ending was more consistent with other elements. However, “aluminum,” as we know, isn’t the only element to break the “ium” pattern. Not to mention the elements with entirely different names, like gold, copper, zinc, nickel, sulfur, hydrogen, nitrogen, carbon, boron, argon, krypton, iron, tungsten, neon, mercury, iodine, tin, and others.

At any rate, throughout the 19th century, both “aluminum” and “aluminium” could be found in the US as well as in Britain, though the “ium” ending was predominant in British English.

This was such a rare metal in the 1800s, though, that we’re not talking about a common household word; it was mainly known among scientists.

Only at the turn of the century, when production on a large scale became practical, did the name of the metal start becoming a familiar word. And that’s when Americans – after some to-ing and fro-ing, of course – began to clearly prefer the simpler “aluminum” (which had been favored, incidentally, by Noah Webster).

Eventually “aluminum” became the standard name for the metal in North America and was officially adopted in the 1920s by the American Chemical Society.

Elsewhere, though, scientists generally use “aluminium.” The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry uses “aluminium” as the standard international spelling but also recognizes “aluminum” as a variant.

 

Sulphur.

 

And the fact remains that the only persons to name the element "aluminum" to this day are the North Americans. Typical "we know better" attitude.

[Sammajoor]

an S5

 

an RS 5

 

Sorry, though we needed a grammar nazi quote to make this thread complete. Don't actually think burry is tweeting himself anyway, grammar looked almost 100%

 

Now back to the next hijack, shouldn't that car be in carbon? What's with all the alu?

 

Excuse me, but AN is only used where a vowel is present... eg, i issued a SI and we are writing a VO. BUT It was an exception to the rule that he was at work.

 

So the original poster was correct ... A S5 or A RS5

[Tumbleweed]

Excuse me, but AN is only used where a vowel is present... eg, i issued a SI and we are writing a VO. BUT It was an exception to the rule that he was at work. So the original poster was correct ... A S5 or A RS5

 

Nope, it depends on how the word is pronounced. Take MTB. The first letter is pronounced "em", therefore it's "an MTB" not "a MTB".