Poll: Airplane or Aeroplane?

[Aur0ra145]

I'm a pilot and I just call it a 'plane' Also, I refer to anything without a terminal as an 'airfield' rather than an 'airport'.

 

[The Unworthy Gentleman]

Dare pull long and I'll have your head on a spike! Scallywags and ruffians abusing vowel sounds, they're short not long. So help me God if you try and pull the wrong mirror on me.

Really? I was raised by My grandparents mostly (Hull and Bristol) and was taught to use the long O.

Tell them they're wrong! It's a flim-flam, I say, a scam, a trick, a hoodwink! I had one guy try and argue both and say it was a scurn, but that's the North for you.

 

[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.)

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.

I'm fully aware. I was quoting a folk song ("Itches in Me Britches") which I hear sometimes at Renaissance Faires:

I was born to Geordie parents, one day when I was young,
That's how the Geordie dialect became me native tongue,
Oh I was a pretty baby, me mother she would vow,
The girls all ran to kiss me then, I wish they'd do it now.

It's the first thing that came to my head, because he said he was a Geordie and he was talking about his dialect.

 

[italiansauce]

Americans use aluminum and you brits use aluminium. They are spelled different so they sound different CRAZY

 

[Goofguy]

...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.

Well I wouldn't call a rotary-wing aircraft a 'plane'. I call it an 'airplane' and that applies to fixed-wing only.

 

[Sacman]

Wow, I seriously didn't know "aeroplane" was actually a thing.

Of course it is... especially if the Chili Peppers say so...<.<

OT: I say Airplane... much easier to remember and spell anyway...

 

[Shock and Awe]

I am a student pilot so I am around a lot of pilots and I have yet to hear one refer to an aircraft as an "aeroplane".

 

[Supertegwyn]

I am a student pilot so I am around a lot of pilots and I have yet to hear one refer to an aircraft as an "aeroplane".

Where do you live?

That really is the deciding factor (people are idiots too)

 

[Necron_warrior]

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?

Truth be told, I honestly have no idea how that pronunciation came into being. Although I prefer it still to saying Loo-tenant.

 

[Shock and Awe]

I am a student pilot so I am around a lot of pilots and I have yet to hear one refer to an aircraft as an "aeroplane".

Where do you live?

That really is the deciding factor (people are idiots too)

The South Eastern US, is it a European thing to call them aeroplanes or something?

 

[Vuliev]

Wait wait wait, I know about aluminium, but caramel? Is there a way other than car-ram-mel?

You'd think because it would be completely stupid to pronounce it any other way it would just be ca-ra-mel but apparently car-mel is common pronunciation in America.

I see. Well at least that's just laziness rather than.... whatever they're doing with aluminium.

See, I know the "proper" pronunciation of aluminium, but you know why I don't say it like that? Because it sounds completely freaking daffy. It doesn't sound like one of the most important and widely used metals on Earth.

Also, "aluminum" is in Webster's as a proper spelling and pronunciation of the 13th element.

 

[DoPo]

Damn. I read through the thread and now both words sound meaningless to me. Way to go OP, that was classy.

I usually say "plane". If I'm feeling talkative "airplane". I never though about it until now. In fact, spellchecker just underlined "airplane".

 

[Major_Tom]

It's called "avion" here.

 

[Deadyawn]

Aeroplane.
Because that is in fact the correct spelling of the word.
So there.

...or not, whatever. I'm too tired to be insistant about this.

 

[Mr Cwtchy]

Well, I always considering the 'technical' term to be Aeroplane.

But I never hear people actually call it that. Most just say plane.

 

[Starik20X6]

Aeroplane. Also, on a similar train of thought, why do Americans insist on removing an 'i' from 'aluminium'? It's alumnium, not aluminum. See, I even had to go back and fix that because it autocorrected to aluminium.

 

[Bloodtrozorx]

I say Airplane but as an American I really enjoy saying Petrol. No one has a clue what I'm saying. Gas, Pfffft.

 

[Supertegwyn]

I am a student pilot so I am around a lot of pilots and I have yet to hear one refer to an aircraft as an "aeroplane".

Where do you live?

That really is the deciding factor (people are idiots too)

The South Eastern US, is it a European thing to call them aeroplanes or something?

Aeroplane is the original spelling, you Americans changed it cause you wanted to be "different"

 

[Batou667]

I say aeroplane, not airplane, for the same reason I say aerodynamic, aerosol and aerobic rather than airdynamic, airsol and airbic.

Because it's the correct f***ing word.