Daddy, why is ... #1

Aluminum or aluminium? If, like me, this question keeps you up at night, scratching your arms feverishly [UNTIL THEY BLEED] and babbling incoherently [THE 'I' IS WATCHING US] like an impression of a demented Hobbit trapped in a razor-wire factory [IT WANTSES TO HURT US]---scratch and babble no more, for the answer is at hand.

http://www.world-aluminium.org/history/language.html