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Anonymous Sat Jul 30 13:46:24 2011 No.3477283 [Reply] [Original]

The great debate: Airplane vs. Aeroplane.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 13:48:24 2011 No.3477297 File: 6 KB, 142x145, hairglow.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Hair

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 13:51:24 2011 No.3477306 English vs. North American English /thread

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 13:56:24 2011 No.3477331 File: 90 KB, 411x352, 1286945794906.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3477306 Don't you mean English vs. British English?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 13:58:24 2011 No.3477337 Correct English vs Incorrect English

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:00:24 2011 No.3477350 I'm American, but I'd prefer aeroplane. At least it would be consistent with other words which would look retarded with air- instead of aero-: aironautics airodynamics airial

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:00:24 2011 No.3477356 Aeroplane.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:02:24 2011 No.3477360 File: 34 KB, 500x373, i see what you did there laptop.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>3477331

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:02:24 2011 No.3477364 >>3477306 Do you britfags land your aeroplanes at an aeroport?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:07:24 2011 No.3477383 >>3477364 SafFag here, we land our aeroplanes at aerodromes...checkmate!

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:08:24 2011 No.3477387 >>3477364 Because it'd be utterly CRAZY to consider landing an aeroplane in an airport.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:11:24 2011 No.3477390 File: 36 KB, 221x246, hmmmmm.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >Airport >On the ground

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:15:24 2011 No.3477400 >>3477387 Just wondering why they persist with aeroplane despite Heathrow International Airport, Gatwick Airport, et c.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:19:24 2011 No.3477404 >>3477400 Why do the yanks persist on pronouncing aluminium (ə-loo-mi-nəm)....

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:20:24 2011 No.3477406 Pretty sure NMH settled this

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:22:24 2011 No.3477413 >>3477400 I wasn't aware that aeroplane and airport were the same words! My God its funny how different two words which are actually the same can look.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:25:24 2011 No.3477419 >>3477404 Because it is spelled Aluminum. If you don't like it, you should have won the war of 1812.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:28:24 2011 No.3477429 >>3477419 Its spelled Aluminium so you pronounce it aloomunum? Why not aluminium?

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:31:24 2011 No.3477439 >>3477429 He's retarded. Just ignore him. Maybe he'll bugger off.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:51:24 2011 No.3477523 >bugger laughinggirls.jpg

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 30 14:58:24 2011 No.3477537 >>3477523 Yank detected.