The Royal Society, deciding that new elements should end with "ium", renamed it ALUMINIUM.
and right too. How would all the other (pre-USA) elements sound if they were spelled the "American" way...
Lithum
Sodum
Potassum
Magnesum
Titanum
Chromum
(at such a late hour, these are the only metals I can think of)
Oh, also
Berryllum
Tritum
Helum
Potassum
Calcum
Scandum
Vanadum
Gallum
etc
etc...
(OK, so some might be post-USA, but I am neither a chemist nor a historian)