Utterly OT - Metal Names - -um or -ium?

billw · Post by **billw** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 9:48 am

Okay, I done went and looked it up, and since Sir Humphrey Davies is the guy who to the best of my research, actually discovered the metal with the chemical symbol "Al", well, I has done determined that he gets to name it.

Aluminium, it is!

Sorry, ALCOA. You got it wrong.

Bill
(but we still invented the banjo!

)

Screeeech!!! · Post by **Screeeech!!!** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 10:11 am

billw wrote:but we still invented the banjo!

Says it all really.

dlovrien · Post by **dlovrien** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:15 am

An interesting explanation is offered in the Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Spelling

billw · Post by **billw** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 12:29 pm

Ye gods. Maybe we should start using what my ol' buddy Ray in Stilwell, KS calls it...

"I got a whole load o' loonium pipe in the truck!"

O.o
Bill

RonKiley · Post by **RonKiley** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 4:50 pm

I hate to tell you this Bill but the Banjo is an import.

Ron

billw · Post by **billw** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 6:51 pm

RonKiley wrote:I hate to tell you this Bill but the Banjo is an import.

Ron

Well, mine certainly is an import, from Japan, no less! Kasuga, sounds a ton like a mondomuchmorespensive Vega! But the apocrypha (and Wikipedia) has it that the banjo is indigenous to the USA. Probably derivative (but what isn't?) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banjo Anyhow, I believe that it's a cool and fun thingy to play, and I really don't have sufficient chauvinism in me to care much who actually invented it, as long as I can play mine!

But since Wiki agrees with me, I'll just keep my illusions (or delusions), illusive though they might be!

Cheers,
Bill

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:17 pm

Skin-headed resonator plucked multi-stringed instruments? China had 'em a bit before the US. We might have to specify exact layout and construction, but that method of organology might lead us to say that the piano was invented by Steinway

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billw · Post by **billw** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:41 pm

Like I said, I dursn't care. Every instrument you care to mention is likely derivative from some other or others. I'm certainly willing to give the invention of the specific instrument as described on Wiki, to a combination of sino - African - American origins and influence. I don't reckon any of the originators used Mylar or threaded metal drumhead adjusters on the head, either. Hey, this appears to be the beginning of Yet Another Chiff and Fipple Angels On The Head Of A Pin confab, so, I'll just concede right here. I have no idea who invented the banjo. It wasn't me or my dad. I think I'd remember if it was.

Cheers,
Bill

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 7:55 pm

billw wrote:I have no idea who invented the banjo. It wasn't me or my dad. I think I'd remember if it was.

It was me. Controversy over.

Chiffed · Post by **Chiffed** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 8:19 pm

Congratulations wrote:
billw wrote:I have no idea who invented the banjo. It wasn't me or my dad. I think I'd remember if it was.
It was me. Controversy over.

I woulda noticed that if me head wasn't stuck....

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 8:52 am

Congratulations wrote:It was me. Controversy over.

Yet, I beg to differ - we ALL know who it really was...

Congratulations · Post by **Congratulations** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:49 am

dfernandez77 wrote:
Congratulations wrote:It was me. Controversy over.
Yet, I beg to differ - we ALL know who it really was...

Satan?

dfernandez77 · Post by **dfernandez77** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:05 am

Congratulations wrote:
dfernandez77 wrote:
Congratulations wrote:It was me. Controversy over.
Yet, I beg to differ - we ALL know who it really was...
Satan?

It was the same guy who changed the spelling of "aluminium."

Whistling Pops · Post by **Whistling Pops** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 10:18 am

billw wrote:Like I said, I dursn't care. Every instrument you care to mention is likely derivative from some other or others. I'm certainly willing to give the invention of the specific instrument as described on Wiki, to a combination of sino - African - American origins and influence. I don't reckon any of the originators used Mylar or threaded metal drumhead adjusters on the head, either. Hey, this appears to be the beginning of Yet Another Chiff and Fipple Angels On The Head Of A Pin confab, so, I'll just concede right here. I have no idea who invented the banjo. It wasn't me or my dad. I think I'd remember if it was.
Cheers,
Bill

Bill,

I think you're right. The banjo IS American

n.

billw · Post by **billw** » Wed Mar 08, 2006 4:05 pm

dfernandez77 wrote:
Congratulations wrote:
dfernandez77 wrote: Yet, I beg to differ - we ALL know who it really was...
Satan?
It was the same guy who changed the spelling of "aluminium."

.... um... to "Loonium"? Naw, I'm pretty sure Ray didn't invent the banjo.

I mean... well... um... hmmmmmmm....?

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