• PumpkinSkink@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I’m gonna take this chance to air my personal grievance with “Iodine”, which is commonly pronounced (in the US at least) “aye-o-dine”, but if we look at all of the other halogen, their “-ine” ending is pronounced “-een”, and therefore iodine should clearly be pronounced “aye-o-deen”.

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      21 hours ago

      I’m English and have always pronounced it as aye-o-deen and the use of dine annoys me unreasonably.