Grab, maybe someone else can tell you why we lost the i but we pronounce it aluminum because of it.

To Guest Who Bemoaned Presidential Gaffes: I remember not believing my ears when Reagan told the President of Mexico, Mi 'cazza' est su 'cazza'. I couldn't believe that a person from southern California didn't know the Spanish pronunciation of casa. Still can't believe it.

Crazy Eddie, 'pacific' was a deft touch!

When I was a young 'un, reading voraciously and already loving words, I tried out many pronunciations on my laughing-uproariously family, i.e. pictureskew, fatigoo, astonn y shed, calfy, a rogant, and on and on...

Ebbie