Talk:Molten Armor/@comment-4077600-20110617200903/@comment-4322053-20110820045110

Who cares about British spelling? It's not what Terraria uses, and it's a dumb dialect anyway. It's full of spellings left over from when Engilsh took a bunch of French. American English fixed the spelling to match the actual English pronunciation, instead of the French pronunciation, which is weird as hell anyway.

And about "aluminium." The discoverer of the metal base of alum, Humphry Davy, named it alumium and later aluminum, according to Wikipedia. He named it aluminum because he isolated it from alumina, now known as Aluminum Oxide, Al2O3. Some anonymous person in Britain suggested the name "aluminium" because he thought it sounded more "classical."

So pretty much, some idiot decided to rename it from the original name given to it by its discoverer because he thought his version sounded better.

TL;DR: British spelling is a massive heap of failure.