Poll: Airplane or Aeroplane?

[Risingblade]

Airplane in American English as far as I know.

 

[hazabaza1]

I seem to pronounce it more like "Air-a plane" but I suppose Aeroplane will do.

 

[Squidwogdog]

Well I grew up eating Aeroplane jelly, so I'll stick with that.

 

[BENZOOKA]

A versus-thread. Wow. I choose an option. Krhm. Yeah. That's about it.

 

[Danial]

GIANT METAL DEMON BIRD!


(I just say plane, but I'm cool like that)

 

[Muspelheim]

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

Min baaaarndooom!<3

Bloody hell, I was disappointed when I found out that air-pirates weren't real... Hmm. Perhaps a future career possibility?

 

[Scarim Coral]

I pretty much used the word Airplane. It never occur to me that I should use the word Aeroplane more often.

 

[Biosophilogical]

Aeroplane, like a normal human being[footnote]And that, my fellow escapists, is how you insult an entire culture of people off-handedly.[/footnote]. I'm actually quite surprised that aeroplane is losing to such a horrid monstrosity of a word. Just because some variations of the American accent just completely skip vowels for no reason, doesn't mean they aren't there.

 

[EmperorSubcutaneous]

That said as a Geordie I don't think I get to comment on anybody's accent making them sound stupid. Although we did get voted as having the most trustable accent... because nobody thinks we're smart enough to trick them. -.-

I presume you were born to Geordie parents one day when you were young, and that's how the Geordie dialect became your native tongue? (Also, I should really stop going to Renaissance Faires if that's the first thing that came to mind when I read that.)

 

[Platypus540]

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'!

Well in the US 'aluminum' is spelled the way we pronounce it, so I don't think that one really matters.

 

[Steeveeo]

High-speed pressurized flying death-tube.

 

[thylasos]

That said as a Geordie I don't think I get to comment on anybody's accent making them sound stupid. Although we did get voted as having the most trustable accent... because nobody thinks we're smart enough to trick them. -.-

I presume you were born to Geordie parents one day when you were young, and that's how the Geordie dialect became your native tongue? (Also, I should really stop going to Renaissance Faires if that's the first thing that came to mind when I read that.)

What? He's from Newcastle or environs, the local accent is Geordie, which incorporates dialect words with a more Norse flavour than more Southern accents due to the influence of the Vikings and Danes, historically, on that part of the country.

Example:

 

[Daveman]

Aeroplane at least sounds vaguely technical, airplane makes you sound simple (what else would it be, a custardplane?).

I just say plane though, because I'm plain. :3

 

[TheLastSamurai14]

I'll give you Lieutenant, though I still prefer saying left-tenant.

What is this I don't even.

It's not even spelled remotely similar. How does one pronounce it as left-tenant?

 

[LetalisK]

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.

Vet-trin. But I'm also in a place where we don't do well with some hard consonants. ie mountain is mou-an, winter is winner.

OT: The correct answer is simply "plane".

 

[BaronUberstein]

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.

Except you ARE spelling it wrong, if you're in America.

The US and the UK have different ways of spelling "english", we're two different countries. There's no real right nor wrong in the matter, it's simply a cultural difference and there is no reason for people to get so up-in-arms about the matter. Seriously.

...wait am I getting up-in-arms about this? Shit.

 

[subtlefuge]

I'm very selective with my syllabic effort.

Plane.

 

[Samurai Silhouette]

Airplane, because that's how I grew up saying it. If I grew up in Europe, I'd be saying Aeroplane. But I don't care how someone else pronounces it as long as we all know what's being talked about. Welcome to the 21st century.

 

[Ectoplasmicz]

Aeroplane. That's just...that's the way.

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.

Pretty much this.

One of my favourite Jeremy Clarkson quotes. "The Americans say the car is made out of 'alu-mi-num'...whatever that is."