Re: The joy of FORTRAN

The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote in
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On 11/03/2025 09:02, rbowman wrote:

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:
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On 10/03/2025 05:09, rbowman wrote:

On 09 Mar 2025 21:56:33 -0400, Rich Alderson wrote:
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The original Tom Swift books date to before Curtiss, so that Tom
Swift's airplane (or was it still aeroplane?) used wing warping.

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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
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Americans couldn't cope with the diphthong though.

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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.
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The question is it really needs to be turned into a three syllable
word with the addition of 'o'.
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No, the question is why Americans who are soi find of inventing
polysyllabic words like 'burglarize' or 'copacetic;' couldn't cope
with three syllables.
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Its probably because they didn't invent the word.
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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.
 

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Nice sign!

I wondered what you were still discussing in this thread.  Good topic.