Video: 2011 Kawasaki Z750R test - 'too heavy to excite'

[MCN]

Kawasaki is making bold claims about their new Z750R. They say they're gunning for the magnificent Triumph Street Triple R, which is more or less the same price and power as the Z750R and one of the best sports nakeds you can...

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[tdragger]

Is he pronouncing "Z" as "zed" instead of "zee"?

Is this similar to "al-lu-min-i-mum" instead to "a-lu-mi-num"?

 

[HellFire]

It's a Canadian thing ... I learned that from Star Gate SG1. LOL


I think if they put that many R3's together in a line, the Earth would change rotation.

 

[saboteur]

It's a Canadian, UK, German etc. thing. All you wanted to know about aluminium:

"The metal was named by the English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (who, you may recall, “abominated gravy, and lived in the odium of having discovered sodium”), even though he was unable to isolate it: that took another two decades’ work by others. He derived the name from the mineral called alumina, which itself had only been named in English by the chemist Joseph Black in 1790. Black took it from the French, who had based it on alum, a white mineral that had been used since ancient times for dyeing and tanning, among other things. Chemically, this is potassium aluminium sulphate (a name which gives me two further opportunities to parade my British spellings of chemical names).
Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in –ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had been named by Davy."

 

[HellFire]

It's a Canadian, UK, German etc. thing. All you wanted to know about aluminium:

"The metal was named by the English chemist Sir Humphry Davy (who, you may recall, “abominated gravy, and lived in the odium of having discovered sodium”), even though he was unable to isolate it: that took another two decades’ work by others. He derived the name from the mineral called alumina, which itself had only been named in English by the chemist Joseph Black in 1790. Black took it from the French, who had based it on alum, a white mineral that had been used since ancient times for dyeing and tanning, among other things. Chemically, this is potassium aluminium sulphate (a name which gives me two further opportunities to parade my British spellings of chemical names).
Sir Humphry made a bit of a mess of naming this new element, at first spelling it alumium (this was in 1807) then changing it to aluminum, and finally settling on aluminium in 1812. His classically educated scientific colleagues preferred aluminium right from the start, because it had more of a classical ring, and chimed harmoniously with many other elements whose names ended in –ium, like potassium, sodium, and magnesium, all of which had been named by Davy."

OWWW!!!
I just had to shove stuff in my head out of the way to make room for this ... I hope you're happy.

 

[saboteur]

Sorry! I just finished listen to Bill Bryson's "A Short History of Nearly Everything" during my commutes... and I remember that aluminum/aluminium business coming up somewhere in that book. Just had to revisit with google.