Poll: Airplane or Aeroplane?

[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."

 

[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".