In America do you call it copum?

Does it really matter how it’s pronounced as long as it is understood? With all the dumb shit doing on lately, the last thing we need is gateway pronunciation.

I’ll give you aluminium if you brits agree to stop pronouncing “ears” like “urrs” because it really weirds me out.

So is it Molybdenium now?

Aluminium is more fun to say

Okay, alumiNEEum it is, then.

I thought the Brits pronounced it "Deep Substrate Foliated Kalkite."

Why say more syllable when few do

Now do Londinium

Hurr gurr Al'memum

don't have dubya pronounce nuclear

Well, the problem is saying that almost all the elements end with -ium, which makes this a non-issue from the jump. Also, according to the wiki article on aluminum, the US and UK basically swapped their preferred spellings - the -ium form was first preferred in the US, while the UK preferred the -um form, then they each adopted the other instead.

Other English-speaking countries do that in a more adequate way?

Also Nucular vs Nuclear

This is really funny as a bilingual person.

When I speak English to my white friends I say Aluminum.

When I speak Sinhala to family I say Aluminium.