man’s defender, warrior

Etymology. The name Alexander is derived from the Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος (Aléxandros; ‘Defender of the people’, ‘Defending men’, or ‘Protector of men’).

Alejandro is the Spanish form of the name Alexander….Alejandro.

Defender of men; protector of mankind….Pronounce Names.

Here are 4 tips that should help you perfect your pronunciation of ‘Alex’: Break ‘Alex’ down into sounds: [AL] + [IKS] – say it out loud and exaggerate the sounds until you can consistently produce them.

Origin: The name Alexander is the Latin form of the Greek name Alexandros. Its meaning is derived from the components alexo (I defend) and aner (man).

English refers only to people and things that are from England specifically. Thus, to be English is not to be Scottish, Welsh nor Northern Irish. British, on the other hand, refers to anything from Great Britain, meaning anyone who lives in Scotland, Wales or England are considered British.

He dropped the letter u from words like colour and honour – which had developed from the French influence in England – to make them color and honor instead. He did the same to words ending in -ise to make them -ize, because he thought American English spelling should reflect the way it was said.

The main difference is that British English keeps the spelling of words it has absorbed from other languages, mainly French and German. Whilst American English spellings are based mostly on how the word sounds when it is spoken.

In British English, either version is fine. Yes, generations of readers and writers have grown up being used to reading realise with an s. But as either version is accepted there, and in America only one is, statistically the z wins.

It’s because in American English, “mathematics” is abbreviated “math”, and in British English, “mathematics” is abbreviated “maths”. It’s just one of those little quirks that distinguish the two dialects of the language. Since “mathematics” is plural, the British English “maths” is more strictly correct.

The simple reason for this is that England and America went their separate ways before anyone became unduly rigorous about spelling words the same way every time. This was largely to differentiate those words from the ones that end in –our and sound like –ower.

Most words ending in an unstressed -our in British English (e.g., colour, flavour, behaviour, harbour, honour, humour, labour, neighbour, rumour, splendour) end in -or in American English (color, flavor, behavior, harbor, honor, humor, labor, neighbor, rumor, splendor).

Why do the British use an ‘s’ in words like ‘realise’ but the Americans use a ‘z’? It’s because American English spelling, many of the rules of which were devised by Noah Webster, who thought it would develop into a separate language, follows the rules of Latin and Greek, whereas British English uses those of French.

Aluminum = The British pronunciation is a tongue twister. It comes easier after a few tries. But, then you’re in danger of forgetting how to say it in American-English. Sounding it out may help, al-loo-MIN-ee-um … There’s a second “i” in the British form of the word, aluminium, hence the extra syllable.

English chemist Sir Humphry Davy named the element alumium in 1808 and then changed it to aluminum in 1812. British editors changed it to aluminium to be more in keeping with other elements such as potassium and sodium, while the Americans retained the spelling as aluminum.