[WWI] Spelling

[Helen and Chris]

Um... Isn't aluminum an element? Therefore can't be invented.

Yes it is and no it can't.  But it can be identified and named.

(We colonials "invented" aluminum--we get to set its spelling!)

Davy was a Brit.  So we get to set its spelling.  According to Wiki (thank you for the reference, Rob and, yes, I hear you Ern) even Webster's agreed with the Brit spelling until less than 100 years ago.

Then someone sends out a flyer with a spelling mistake and we wind up with a shades of Shane situation.

Not that it really matters.  We are quite tolerant, heartened, even, by the efforts of those from the Colonies who attempt to emulate their betters!

Chris (diving for cover behind a tea-chest).
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