Poll: Airplane or 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.

 

[SckizoBoy]

What is this I don't even.

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

The word 'lieutenant' was originally French (and actually, there was a movement in the UK to get rid of it because of the etymology... 'we don't want these French... whatever they are, cluttering up our proud military' and so on, but it failed).

It was derived from 'en lieu de le tenant' i.e. 'in place of the holder'. The 'lef' of the British pronunciation comes from an older version of the word 'lieu' spelt 'leuf' which in parts of Brittany/Normandy retained that pronunciation despite the change of the spelling to 'lieu', hence 'lieutenant' became pronounced in English France and by association, England as 'leuftenant', which it continues to be to this day.

Galling isn't it?! =P (PS, yes, I'm a limey)

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

Quoted for the lesson! The more you know...

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.

LOL... I'm an RP spouting toff and I pronounce it with a long (round) 'O'... bring it!

 

[Private Custard]

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.

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I rest my case!