Good.

Aluminum*

FTFY

Edit: somehow y'all are taking this very personally. I was trying to be cheeky... obviously the American spelling is correct though :P

Charles Schultz knew what he was talking about.

what about those new plastic trees the Old Man was talking about, that look like a bunch of plastic pipe cleaners?

Op is probably not American. No fix needed.

I mean. The brits spell it incorrectly. I think the fix is totally needed.

(I don't actually care one way or the other. It's just fun to pick on British spelling and pronunciation.)

after 40+ years of watching the special, I finally bothered to look at what one looked like... How exactly do you store one of them? the wiki example looks pretty damn solid and pokey

The Brits care about 'u' while Americans don't.

Lol. Haven't heard that one before. Nice.

Aluminium follows the naming format of a lot of other post-transition metals.

We have Gallium, Germanium, Cadmium, Indium, etc. not Gallum, Germanum, Cadmum, Indum, etc.

Also, it was a British chemist who is credited as the person who named it. And it was originally proposed as alumium, which was criticized by other chemists from other countries who thought it should be named for the oxide alumina from which the metal would be isolated.

Anyway, it was also that same British chemist who used the spelling aluminum in a chemistry textbook.

Thank you for sharing this for everyone. I'm familiar with the history and find it very amusing. It's why I relish the opportunity to insist that one way is "correct" while the other is not.

Like the artificial trees?

The box for our 10 year old one shredded some time in year 3 so I just stack all the parts and wrap the tree lights around it, shove it where the sun doesn’t shine (the attic you pervs).

So far so good.

Instead, families everywhere prop up a dry piece of kindling and drape it in overloaded electrical wire.

YAY, PEANUTS!

And TV executives were wrong about everything.

They disliked the jazz score.

They disliked the use of real children for the voices.

They disliked Linus quoting the Bible.

Schultz had to fight for all of these.

My favorite part about that is when Linus knocks on an aluminum tree and it sounds like he's knocking on a giant metal cistern.

No u.

Back in the mid-60's we had one of those, lit by the mandatory slowly spinning four-color-wheel spotlight. We thought we were so avant-garde. It got old pretty quick.

Came here to say this. Nothing safer than a metal tree with some 500 degree spinny light thingy on the floor right where the kids go to grab presents. I miss the 60s!

Aluminum?? Like some sort of a...pole??

We had one of those when I was a kid 'cause I had some sort of allergy that I don't havw anymore

Brah, us americans need to be the better man. Let the Brits be like "aMeRiCa AlwAyS dOeS iT wRoNg" and make a fool of themselves.