Sujet : Re: The joy of FORTRAN
De : tnp (at) *nospam* invalid.invalid (The Natural Philosopher)
Groupes : alt.folklore.computers comp.os.linux.miscDate : 10. Mar 2025, 12:10:41
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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.
-- "It was a lot more fun being 20 in the 70's that it is being 70 in the 20's"Joew Walsh
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