It's not, it's pronounced Ah-loo-min-ee-um.

... I don't know where you get the 'muh' from. Probably by being American.

He got the muh cause he was bad, I'd pronounce our pronounceable of your version the way you said it.

I prefer Ah-loo-min-um though. New world order!

Yep, learning chemistry last year, I was kinda "Hey wait a minute. This makes way more sense." But out of habit I still pronounce it incorrectly. I should work on that.

I tried VoiceOver, and aluminum sounds smoother than aluminium.

Still sounds weird. :P

AH-LOO-MIN-YUM AH-LOO-MIN-YUM AH-LOO-MIN-YUM AH-LOO-MIN-YUM AH-LOO-MIN-YUM

This. And I keep my lappy constantly plugged in because for my uses, it's a desktop replacement. A desktop replacement that I can also take with me when needed for two or three hours.
(Constantly having it plugged in and not letting the battery go through a full cycle may explain why I've gotten this since upgrading to Snow Leopard)

But we've had this discussion about [gaming] laptops before and so I'll leave it at that.

The lesson we learn here is to just configure your computer to work for you.

Service Battery?