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Which of these two words do you use? What one would you suggest I use in everyday,
informal speech?
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I use airplane, but I'm North American. Aeroplane is used in the UK. Both are fine,
I don't think it matters which you use.
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It depends. In America, say airplane. In Britain, say aeroplane.
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I use "aeroplane" but I'm from Australia. If you want to use North American style
English, use "airplane" otherwise use "aeroplane".
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I can't say for other areas in North America, but in the northeastern US, no one
says "airplane" anymore. Just "plane."
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Re Aeroplane vs Airplane: These are what are known in Linguistics as "competing
forms". Two or more words compete with each other in a language for the same meaning
and in the end one wins out.
It happens all the time. For example, in Old Spanish several words words like
rapoza "fox", cán "dog" and hiniestra window" competed with zorro, perro and ventana
but the latter three eventually won out. (In Judaeo-Spanish, however, rapoza is still
used for "fox"). In English, Northern Middle English "they, their, them" eventually
won out over Southern Middle English "hi, hir, hem" but the Southern English "church"
prevailed over the North English "kirk".
I remember hearing some Americans using "aeroplane" as late as the 1950's but
nowadays "airplane" appears to be ubiquitous in the United States. Sometimes linguistic
changes can happen within a lifetime.
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Airplane sounds weird. It's what I expect a little kid to come up with to describe
an aeroplane.
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Quote-"they, their, them" eventually won out over Southern Middle English "hi, hir,
hem"
It's a good thing that ''their'' won out over Southern Middle English ''hir'' because
''hir'' would sound just like ''her''.
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It's an airplane or a plane where I am from - this includes both coasts in America.
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AIRPLANE...Mind you we don't say airspace or airdynamics...it's aerospac
e and aerodynamics...just airplane is different.
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Do Britons, Australians etc. call ''airports'', ''aeroports''? Americans call them
''airports''.
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No, we say "airport" but it is "aeroport" in French.
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I'm from the US. I use "plane" and "airplane" more, but I've used "aeroplane" a few
times also.
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