Little Hawk

>>The Brits also say "al-you-MI-ni-um" instead of "a-LU-min-um". Very odd.

Probably something to do with the spelling of the word aluminium or do you always not sound the letter 'I' ...

Giok

Unfortunately stadiums is perfectly good English! Dictionaries offer either stadia or stadiums as valid plurals. Words that come from Latin do not necessarily have plurals in the Latin form (eg viruses/statuses etc).