Poll: Airplane or Aeroplane?

[Private Custard]

Any country that sees how the word 'aluminium' is spelt and still can't pronounce it correctly is obviously not to be trusted when it comes to matters such as this.

And yes, outside the U.S, 'spelt' is used as the past-tense form of 'spell', as well as 'spelled'!

 

[Final First]

I spell and pronounce it as "aeroplane". It's funny because I'm American so I often get others telling me I'm saying or pronouncing it wrong. When I tell them that "airplane" isn't the proper spelling they don't believe me. It annoys me, really.

 

[SckizoBoy]

At least we bother to prounounce "Veteran" & "Lieutenant" properly.

Wait, wait, I'm a Brit and I fail to see how 'veteran' can be mispronounced.

I pronounce it Vet-er-an, but I heard the british (along with lost of people here in the states) pronounce it Vet-tran.

Ah, now, see, that's just laziness.

Though I'm with you, insomuch that the British pronunciation of 'lieutenant' is just silly. I do know why the British pronounce it that way, but considering the etymology, I can't for the life of me fathom why they would persist in it.

OT: Aeroplane...

From a linguistic perspective, it makes more sense. But 'aircraft', being the catch-all term for flight capable vehicles, is a weird one... and presumably an American concoction, given the lack of distinct plural... -_-

 

[Kae]

Aeroplane, mostly because it sounds closer to "aeroplano" the Spanish word for it, but also because I do tend to use some UK spelling, it just sounds way more classy.

 

[ringwraithv]

Suppose it depends on whether you are an American in the 21st century, or a British Sopwith Camel pilot in 1916...

 

[Necron_warrior]

At least we bother to prounounce "Veteran" & "Lieutenant" properly.

Wait, wait, I'm a Brit and I fail to see how 'veteran' can be mispronounced.

I pronounce it Vet-er-an, but I heard the british (along with lost of people here in the states) pronounce it Vet-tran.

Ah, now, see, that's just laziness.

Though I'm with you, insomuch that the British pronunciation of 'lieutenant' is just silly. I do know why the British pronounce it that way, but considering the etymology, I can't for the life of me fathom why they would persist in it.

OT: Aeroplane...

From a linguistic perspective, it makes more sense. But 'aircraft', being the catch-all term for flight capable vehicles, is a weird one... and presumably an American concoction, given the lack of distinct plural... -_-

To be honest, I'd prefer if Britain just called it Left-Tenant and spelt it like that to.
It make sense, a person who is occupying the space on your side, on the left

 

[SckizoBoy]

To be honest, I'd prefer if Britain just called it Left-Tenant and spelt it like that to.
It make sense, a person who is occupying the space on your side, on the left

Nnnnn, maybe, except the lieutenant's typical place was at the back if the captain was about or at the front if the captain was dead/absent. And what you mentioned isn't really what 'lieutenant' means: 'in place of the holder' (Fr.) i.e. second-in-command. Direction isn't indicated...

 

[DustyDrB]

Is this going to be like that buttwiping [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.274994-Poll-Do-you-sit-or-stand?page=2] thread, where each side didn't even know there were people who did it the other way (despite it being about an even split)?

Anyway, I say Airplane.

 

[Necron_warrior]

To be honest, I'd prefer if Britain just called it Left-Tenant and spelt it like that to.
It make sense, a person who is occupying the space on your side, on the left

Nnnnn, maybe, except the lieutenant's typical place was at the back if the captain was about or at the front if the captain was dead/absent. And what you mentioned isn't really what 'lieutenant' means: 'in place of the holder' (Fr.) i.e. second-in-command. Direction isn't indicated...

Ah fair enough, My naval knowledge isn't really so great.

Still the whole right-hand-man, second-in-command thing. Either spelling works, just preference I guess.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I say "Airplane", but I really don't care how you spell/say it as long as we all understand that we're talking about the same damn thing; that thing being a large flying craft with wings that's used for mass transport.

 

[DanielBrown]

Flygplan.
Though I say airplane when I'm speaking English.

 

[SckizoBoy]

Ah fair enough, My naval knowledge isn't really so great.

Still the whole right-hand-man, second-in-command thing. Either spelling works, just preference I guess.

No sweat, and I guess it is just one of those things that has become so divergent that it is just what you like saying better. *shrug* So why not screw English altogether and say zhongwei... or something...

Though I'm not sure what (military) service it comes from, except that the concept (it holds etymological roots in Latin) was first used by the Roman army... post-Marian, probably... but don't quote me on that...

 

[Samantha Burt]

Depends on how fancy I want to be.

Now pardon me, but no more buttered scones for me mater: I'm off to play the grand piano.

Long or short "o" on your scone, fellow? Also, I do believe that it's "aeroplane", old chap.

 

[loc978]

...fixed-wing aircraft or just aircraft. There are too many definitions of the word plane [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plane], and I'd like that one removed. Probably stems from me being a former rotary aircraft tech, really.

Also, the plural form of aircraft is aircraft. Just as the plural form of deer is deer. Context, it's a thing.

 

[Breaker deGodot]

It's 'Airplane'.

Then again, where I'm from, we don't go around adding unnecessary vowels to words. Such as 'Armor', 'Color' or 'Honor'.

Actually, you americans were simply too lazy to spell them properly and took out the vowels.

It represents your whole culture in a way.

SCHWING!!

It's funny, because where I come from "SCHWING!!" is a slang way of saying "I've got a boner!" Interesting how that works out.

 

[theparsonski]

Then again, where I'm from, we don't go around adding unnecessary vowels to words. Such as 'Armor', 'Color' or 'Honor'.

Adding? I'm sorry, but where does the English language originate from again?

 

[FoolKiller]

Three-dimensionally moving mass-transport locomotion machine.

I thought this thread was talking about airplanes and not tricycles. Why would you even bring up tricycles?

 

[loc978]

Three-dimensionally moving mass-transport locomotion machine.

I thought this thread was talking about airplanes and not tricycles. Why would you even bring up tricycles?

...a mass transport tricycle? Sounds dangerous!

'course, not all aircraft are mass transport.