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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2025 11:10:41 +0000
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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.

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