Im saying that it’s not a typo if the creator of a word spells it a certain way multiple times in a book. They clearly meant to spell it that way when they were writing the book.
It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time
America kept the old word. I’m half surprised America doesn’t call gold aurium
Kinda seems like there was a typo and it just stuck.
Do you not think that textbook would have multiple places where they use that word?
Is the word only ever written in the one textbook, then?
Im saying that it’s not a typo if the creator of a word spells it a certain way multiple times in a book. They clearly meant to spell it that way when they were writing the book.
As i read it, in the commenter’s scenario, it is the extra “i” that would be the typo.
It was called aluminum for a long time universally. Everyone else changed to aluminium when it was discovered to be an element and was renamed to meet the naming scheme of the time
America kept the old word. I’m half surprised America doesn’t call gold aurium