Not really of importance but.......

[EA2007]

does anyone know why there is such a large amount of people pronouncing the LHC as the 'large hay-dron collider' instead of the large had-ron collider.

As far as I can tell its spelt H-A-D-R-O-N not H-A-Y-D-R-O-N or H-E-Y-D-R-O-N.

I can understand the yanks saying it that way, the same as tomato and vitamins. But BBC news both online and t.v. along with paxman on newsnight were saying it the american way.

Just a thought that is all.

[algol]

true, but you pronounce radiator as R-A-Y-D-I-A-T-O-R.

not that i know the correct pronunciation just thought i'd chuck that in.

[EA2007]

ha ha, thats true and the word irradiate. Although irradication is different.

I dunno, I just think if were English then we should stick to the English way of saying things.

[algol]

the english language is messed up but yeah we should stay away from americanisms. when i studied chemsitry one of the students was american and she pronounced everything different, for example.

instead of benzene she said benzine , and instead of aluminium she said aluminum

just plain wrong, ok rant over lol

[EA2007]

Ha ha....lets not get started on Bush!

[David Galvin]

Ha ha....lets not get started on Bush!

Booshe

[timetraveller]

I quite like kate Heathcliff oh its me cathy come home to me now lol

[algol]

don't you think her eyes are just really freaky, in a very spaced and floaty way

[timetraveller]

its not just her eyes that are freaked out

[The Warthog]

the english language is messed up but yeah we should stay away from americanisms. when i studied chemsitry one of the students was american and she pronounced everything different, for example.

instead of benzene she said benzine , and instead of aluminium she said aluminum

just plain wrong, ok rant over lol

One of my great disappointments in coming to Canada was that I had just learned to pronounce "aluminium" and of course, Canadians call it (and spell it) "aluminum." I could also spell "aeroplane" and was marked wrong in a spelling test for not writing "airplane." Here, soldiers have boots, and elephants and cars have trunks; Amish women wear bonnets, and cars and monks have hoods. Things are delivered in trucks, and nobody knows what a lorry is, and an articulated lorry is a semi-trailer. And I won't even get into pogey, 2-4's, muskeg and mickeys.

[algol]

sounds like a bit of a rough transition WH, how the language changes, although i once got chatting to a cockney and didnt have the foggiest what the fella was on about.

apples and pairs, dog and bone, gregory peck. hmmm

[wingman]

A friend of mine at work thought it was a large hardon collider! She was rather disappointed when I told her

[EA2007]

ha ha, my facebook status involved that choice of wording.....I'll let you guys figure the rest out!

[thing]

It's Had-ron. Somebody on Radio 4 actually pronounced it correctly the other day.

[Kai]

Not as bad as the Large Hadron Collinder , that somebody told me about

[EA2007]

hmm, a collinder?

Cookery time @ CERN me thinks!

[Paxo]

Not as bad as the Large Hadron Collinder , that somebody told me about

Was it full of tiny black holes?

Steve

[EA2007]

Indeed it was...and ready for spaghettification!

[InvaderXan]

instead of benzene she said benzine

Incidentally, that's not just wrong, but also potentially confusing. Pronouncing "benzene" wrong, for instance, could easily confuse it with "benzyne" (a much more reactive chemical)...

[The Warthog]

The CBC and CTV have been pronouncing it correctly, too.