I’m picking “Colonel” needs to be respelled to match how it’s pronounced.

Try to pick a word no one else has picked. What word are you respelling?

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    You talk about it like all scientists could ever agree to something and that it would be possible to poll every single one and properly weight their individual scientific relevance.

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          Congratulations, you just found the crazy whiney dissident group of astronomers who just can’t admit they’re wrong by general consensus.

          Experts arguing amongst themselves is hardly the same.

          An entire country being contrary just because of national pride and arrogance is completely different.

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            Disagreeing with general consensus ≠ wrong

            An entire country being contrary just because of national pride and arrogance is completely different.

            Is it your position that all countries should have the same language regardless of their cultural history?

            Also, it isn’t rooted in national pride or arrogance. Aluminum came first and was the name given by the first chemist - a British scientist - to isolate the metal. The variant aluminium came from a reviewer who changed the spelling just because he liked the sound better. Aluminum was recognized by ACS 65 years before IUPAC standardized to aluminum. IUPAC has recognized aluminum as an acceptable spelling since 1993. So yeah, the general concensus is the aluminum is okay even based on your logic because IUPAC says so.