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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2025 12:34:51 +0000
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On 12/03/2025 09:44, c186282 wrote:
> On 3/10/25 5:02 PM, rbowman wrote:
>> On Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:10:41 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>
>>> On 10/03/2025 05:09, rbowman wrote:
>>>> On 09 Mar 2025 21:56:33 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> The original Tom Swift books date to before Curtiss, so that Tom
>>>>> Swift's airplane (or was it still aeroplane?) used wing warping.
>>>>
>>>> Probably. My brother went to college to become an AE when he got back
>>>> from WWII and always said 'aeroplane'. I suppose it was consistent as
>>>> he spent his career in the aerospace industry.
>>> Aeroplane was the original spelling
>>>
>>> Americans couldn't cope with the diphthong though.
>>
>> Unless Brits say the word very strangely, which is entirely possible, the
>> AE has neither the long e (algae) or long i (alumnae) value.  'Air' and
>> 'Aer' are pronounced the same. The question is it really needs to be
>> turned into a three syllable word with the addition of 'o'.
> 
> 
>    "A-Ero-Plane" ... that's the Brit way.
> 
No, there is a difference between an earohplaine, and an air plain

And it is as pointed out the French way, and the standard in every 
language excpet colloquial American and then in only one specificic 
instance.

Aeronautical. Aerobatics. Aeronautics.  Aeroplane. Aerogel. Aerospace.



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