Oddities you don't think of:

[Cyan]

in French it's "aluminium" too, with the I.


"(1819) Du latin ălūmĕn (« alun ») car il a été découvert dans l’alun. D’abord nommé alumium par son découvreur l’AnglaisSir Humphry Davy[*], il prit ensuite le nom d’aluminum sur le modèle du mot anglais alumina (« terre d’alun »), puis, pour entrer dans le groupe des métaux en « -ium » (suffixe désignant un métal) comme le sodium et le potassium, il prit le nom d’aluminium."

It translate roughtly to:

from latin "alun", because it was discovered in Alun.
First named alumium by his English discoverer Sir Humphry Davy, it has then be named "aluminum" on the english model of the word "Alumina" (Alun earth)
Then, to enter in the metalic group in "ium" (suffix to designate a metal) like the sodium and potassium, it took the name "Aluminium".


I guess American don't follow the "ium" suffix rule for metalic elements.

 

[ProtoKun7]

The fact that midnight is called midnight when in fact it's the start of the morning.

First of all, its not the start of the morning its the start of the next day and that starts at 12:01 not midnight. Midnight refers to time based on whether or not you can see the sun not on clock time. That is why it goes morning when dawn, sunrise, morning, midday/noon, afternoon, evening, sunset, dusk, twilight, night, midnight and it repeats, its based on light source.

nope.avi

 

[Jamstruth]

The fact that midnight is called midnight when in fact it's the start of the morning.

First of all, its not the start of the morning its the start of the next day and that starts at 12:01 not midnight. Midnight refers to time based on whether or not you can see the sun not on clock time. That is why it goes morning when dawn, sunrise, morning, midday/noon, afternoon, evening, sunset, dusk, twilight, night, midnight and it repeats, its based on light source.

nope.avi

Middle of night. Mid-night. Yes its the start of the morning but its also the middle of the night.

 

[machomuu]

The fact that midnight is called midnight when in fact it's the start of the morning.

First of all, its not the start of the morning its the start of the next day and that starts at 12:01 not midnight. Midnight refers to time based on whether or not you can see the sun not on clock time. That is why it goes morning when dawn, sunrise, morning, midday/noon, afternoon, evening, sunset, dusk, twilight, night, midnight and it repeats, its based on light source.

nope.avi

Middle of night. Mid-night. Yes its the start of the morning but its also the middle of the night.

Wouldn't the middle of the night be the time between midnight and evening? Morning isn't night, and the two never meet and never "exist" at the same time, thus midnight is the beginning of the morning or the end of the night, it can't be both.

 

[Issac]

Hmm, this midnight discussion... I consider night being like, from 22:00 to 02:00 approx... and then it's early morning.. and then around 5:00 - 8:00 it's morning (the regular one). etc. But that's my view on it ^^

Something I find odd, is sadly a Swedish thing. Our word for Accessory is "Accessoar", however, it is pronounced "Assessoar" unlike Accessory, which is pronounced "axessory", that double c however, is pronounced like an x in all the other words in Swedish... Like "Accelerera (accelerate)", "Acceptera (accept)" etc.

 

[Gahars]

The games that I buy and love always freeze on my Xbox 360. Every. Single. Last. One.

This may be a more personal gripe, but seriously. Fate or whatever has it out for me.

 

[Issac]

another one I think of from time to time:
When doing fractions in math, above the fraction line is "numerator" and below is "denominator".
How come it's not nominator and denominator, or numerator and denumerator

 

[Veho]

How come it's not nominator and denominator, or numerator and denumerator

Good one

Why is the plural of "mongoose" not "mongeese"?

 

[ProtoKun7]

Why do noses run and feet smell?