Well yes and no, but mostly no. The originally-proposed name by the Brit who named it was actually alumium. Scientists in other European countries (not the UK) gave him feedback that it should have the prefix ‘ium’ and logically be named aluminium as it is refined from an alumina/alumine oxide, following the naming pattern of other elements. He agreed and refined it to aluminium, but also used aluminum in a textbook he wrote around the same time.
This was all within a decade or so more than 200 years ago. The scientific world settled on aluminium long before any products had even hit the market in the US, but Noah Webster for whatever reason decided to use the spelling ‘aluminum’ in his dictionary in 1828, even though US scientists were already using ‘aluminium’ and it was more common locally. And once it was in the dictionary (with no mention of the alternate spelling) it stuck.
You’ve misread the Wikipedia. It states that he didn’t agree but it could possibly be named aluminium. He then proceeded the next year to use aluminum instead. It was then called aluminum and aluminium in Britain for years.
However, in England and Germany Davy’s spelling aluminum was initially used; until German chemist Friedrich Wöhler published his account of the Wöhler process in 1827 in which he used the spelling aluminium[o], which caused that spelling’s largely wholesale adoption in England and Germany, with the exception of a small number of what Richards characterized as “patriotic” English chemists that were “averse to foreign innovations” who occasionally still used aluminum.[139
So for almost twenty years the Brits (and Germans) called it aluminum, not aluminium.
Americans used aluminium until Webster heard aluminum and put that in his dictionary. Then they actually continued to call it aluminium until the 1890s (the Brits still using both at this point). Then there was a swap in that decade
It is decidedly (according to the source you posted and my past research) the Brits fault. They called it aluminum. They used that name for years, and then only later changed it and then acted like the Americans were weird.
So yes and no, but mostly yes, it is the Brits fault.
Well yes and no, but mostly no. The originally-proposed name by the Brit who named it was actually alumium. Scientists in other European countries (not the UK) gave him feedback that it should have the prefix ‘ium’ and logically be named aluminium as it is refined from an alumina/alumine oxide, following the naming pattern of other elements. He agreed and refined it to aluminium, but also used aluminum in a textbook he wrote around the same time.
This was all within a decade or so more than 200 years ago. The scientific world settled on aluminium long before any products had even hit the market in the US, but Noah Webster for whatever reason decided to use the spelling ‘aluminum’ in his dictionary in 1828, even though US scientists were already using ‘aluminium’ and it was more common locally. And once it was in the dictionary (with no mention of the alternate spelling) it stuck.
So this one is mostly on the US.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium#Etymology
You’ve misread the Wikipedia. It states that he didn’t agree but it could possibly be named aluminium. He then proceeded the next year to use aluminum instead. It was then called aluminum and aluminium in Britain for years.
So for almost twenty years the Brits (and Germans) called it aluminum, not aluminium.
Americans used aluminium until Webster heard aluminum and put that in his dictionary. Then they actually continued to call it aluminium until the 1890s (the Brits still using both at this point). Then there was a swap in that decade
It is decidedly (according to the source you posted and my past research) the Brits fault. They called it aluminum. They used that name for years, and then only later changed it and then acted like the Americans were weird.
So yes and no, but mostly yes, it is the Brits fault.