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Anonymous Sat Jan 26 21:25:19 2013 No.5474347 [DELETED]

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>"aluminum"

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 21:26:49 2013 No.5474354 >"what"

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 21:27:48 2013 No.5474356 Orthography goes on >>>/lit/

Anonymous Sat Jan 26 21:31:19 2013 No.5474366

>my face when Americans call "wobbly flip-shutters" doors
>my face when Americans call a "Small Ben" a clock
>my face when Americans call a "chimey pushknob" a doorbell
>my face when Americans call "niffy loo pudding" feces
>my face when Americans call a "hooty tooty point-and-shooty" a gun
>my face when Americans call "beef Wellington ensemble with lettuce" a hamburger
>my face when Americans call "crockety snapwickets" markers
>my face when Americans call "cold on the cob" popsicles
>my face when Americans call a "loony chuckle fairy" a clown
>my face when Americans call a "cuff-link time Johnny" a watch

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 21:51:51 2013 No.5474400 File: 159 KB, 750x453, 1356391221786.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5474366

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:11:36 2013 No.5474441 >>5474347 Sir Humphry Davy, an Englishman, proposed the element's name as "aluminum". Yet somehow, the Brits picked up an extra syllable.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:17:38 2013 No.5474451 >>5474441 Chrom-ium. Stront-ium. Polon-ium. It indicates 'metal'.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:33:38 2013 No.5474489 File: 126 KB, 376x375, 1356685136652.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5474451 >mfw "stront" means "shit" in a Dutch dialect

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:39:23 2013 No.5474505 >>5474451 Platinum, iron, nickel, gold, tungsten, lead, tin, cobalt, copper, silver, bismuth...

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:39:38 2013 No.5474507 >>5474451 >Tungsten >not Tungstenium EXPLAIN THAT SHIT

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:45:52 2013 No.5474523 >>5474489 And in Afrikaans. Science class was fun.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:47:54 2013 No.5474525 >>5474451 Nah, it doesn't.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 22:48:36 2013 No.5474528 >>5474451 >Gymnasium >Stadium >Auditorium Fuck off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 23:05:42 2013 No.5474555 File: 42 KB, 500x500, abigail.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>5474528 > implying those aren't fine venues for metal

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 23:10:56 2013 No.5474567 >>5474507 >Wolframium

>>	Anonymous Sat Jan 26 23:38:41 2013 No.5474604 >>5474555 laughed

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