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: 11 Mar 2025 09:02:48 GMT Lines: 41 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 vJk8eqYeE22Z5o51uK4oZge/jkrwDE42m4Qf9XU0tnwL9QVEzg Cancel-Lock: sha1:8hSNb+ye1Mw4d8Oz384nBl1J8Ms= sha256:IXDs4hWUEk7zq/rirC8aitRoi170xRlcRC+H33ckYoo= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Xref: csiph.com alt.folklore.computers:230524 comp.os.linux.misc:66230 On Tue, 11 Mar 2025 08:02:36 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote: > On 10/03/2025 21:02, 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. > By Americns. > >> The question is it really needs to be turned into a three syllable word >> with the addition of 'o'. >> > No, the question is why Americans who are soi find of inventing > polysyllabic words like 'burglarize' or 'copacetic;' couldn't cope with > three syllables. > > Its probably because they didn't invent the word. > > Aeroplane: late 19th century: from French aéroplane, from aéro- ‘air’ + > Greek -planos ‘wandering’. Just because you let a good Anglo-Saxon language get corrupted by William the Bastard and his little froggy friends doesn't mean we give a shit what the French called it.