Americans pronounce aluminium as aloominum instead of al-u-minium
pronounce unleaded as un-leed-id instead of un-led-id
But "aluminum" was the original British spelling and pronunciation. It was only later that Brits began saying "aluminium" 'cause they thought it should sound like other elements like lithium or sodium.
If anyone, it's the Brits who are 'pulverizing' the language, with all their new-fangled expressions and deletion of traditional words.
It's American English that's the more conservative, in many ways; retaining older forms like "gotten," the Shakespearean "Fall" for Autumn, and the aforementioned "aluminum."
-- and don't get me started on that posh, non-rhotic R affectation that swept England in the 1700s. Luckily, the more down-to-Earth Scots, Irish and Americans turned their noses up at such frippery.
and to top it off, these Americans completely pulverize the great English language by saying
"What did you got?
I don't hear anyone saying that. Maybe "what you got?" or "wucha got?" but not "what
did you got."
Have a niyce day now
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When my wife says "orange" where the "or" part is pronounced the same way it is in the word "or" instead of like the word "are". Just because words are spelled the same doesn't mean they're meant to be pronounced the same. She doesn't get that.
But or-ange is how it's traditionally pronounced. Are-ange sounds like a New England dialect.
Wherever possible I think it's best to pronounce things as they're spelled. In phonetic languages it takes children a week to learn to read. For English it takes years -- and there are still many who never master it. Pronouncing words differently from their spelling is creating generations of illiterates!
Saying "Are-ange" is anti-social, Anti-American and probably a communist plot!
