+1 It seems that vacuum is the odd word out when placed in a lineup with (for example) continuum, individuum, menstruum, and residuum. I don't know why the -uum in vacuum came to be pronounced differently from the -uum in the others, but to judge from the pronunciation offered in John Walker's A Critical Pronouncing Dictionary, and Expositor of the English Language (1807), 'twas not always thus.
This property of a vacuum tube to create the electronic current in vacuum and act as an amplifier is the base of what is called electronics, to distinguish it from the other fields of electrical engineering. Electronics was born with the vacuum tube. From tube to transistor (and semi-conductors in general)
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I noticed Robin Michael, who is on this site, stated she learned to spell the word 'vacuum' as "vacumn". I was also taught the same thing in school around 40 years ago; I always scored the