Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: The joy of FORTRAN Date: 10 Mar 2025 21:02:19 GMT Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <20250227080310.0000604d@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net H648VKY4f5gLExdyMRQAMgeQcH1solbo5BBv29u5Curo074GdA Cancel-Lock: sha1:TGF0Osv2w/N9DgtKV2SQM2oakro= sha256:wWTknas7qhQEgV/CAUrU1C/J7P7q+DBpsPCTiY40RdM= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230510 comp.os.linux.misc:66213 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'.