povray.org admin team wrote:
> 
> Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet> wrote:
> 
> >David Greaves wrote:
> >
> >> If you look at it, even the letter Z (pronounced zed of course)  is
> arrogant.
> >> All those angles and straight lines.
> >
> >"Pronounced zed" ?
> 
> Yep. The English way of saying the letter 'z' is 'zed'. Americans (and
> American
> influenced countries) say 'zee'.
> 
> There's a bunch of other stuff, too. Most of them relate to Americans
> 'simplifying' words or sounds to make them either easier to pronounce,
> or
> easier to say. Hence colour becomes color, Aluminium becomes Aluminum,
> and so
> forth.

Aha! That's where the Aluminum comes from! And I thought I was wrong in
think it should be Aluminium. Goes to show how imperialistic .... (oh
never mind)

Remco

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