Re: spelling goofs on Audi's web pages

[Huw Powell <human@nh.ultranet.com>]

> Well, not quite.  They just spelled Aluminum in a very weird way.
> 
> Aluminium.
> 
> My dictionary defines this as a variant("Chiefly British") of Aluminum.
> Weird that they would do such a thing, since
> a)most people don't spell it that way(except for the British, sorry guys)
> b)people quicker-to-judge will think Audi misspelled it, ie, bad company image.

You Americans can be so provincial (is it time for me to get an attitude
check?).  Spelled correctly (and much more pretty to say!), aluminium
conforms with the way lots of other metals are spelled.  Don't know what
the rest of the Empire, um I mean, Commonwealth, is doing nowadays, but
often "chiefly British" means every English speaking country in the
world except the US...

not trying to pick any fights, just trying to decide if I should go up
on the roof to seal the old chimney hole before the first inch of snow
falls... 

-- 
Huw Powell

http://www.thebook.com/human-speakers

82 (+/-) Audi Coupe