[BITList] What's in your garden shed

[David Harvey]

When they were invented I think they were called aeroplanes and they landed and took off from aerodromes. By your definition an airfield is a field that flies around, perhaps a flying field?

My dad called them aeroplanes, my grandfather (b. 1880) called them aeroplanes before there was a RAF, so I call them by their proper, and original, name, aeroplane. See!

So now you want to change the word from ship to seacraft? and how can an aeroplane flying through the atmospere of a planet where that planet may have an atmosphere of carbondioxide. Then it would be a carbondioxodecraft, but more simply an aeroplane.

Of course being able to fly an aeroplane is a craft, a craft which I would like to have, but, then I am but a simple sailor.

Cheers

Dave
-- Original Message ----- 
  From: John Feltham 
  To: bitlist at lists.bcn.mythic-beasts.com 
  Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 11:17 AM
  Subject: Re: [BITList] What's in your garden shed


  G'day David,


  On 25/01/2009, at 11:52 AM, David Harvey wrote:


  > I wrote my first letter to the Sydney Morning Herald at age 15, how about you?

  Mine would have been around 1986 to The Townsville Bulletin. But I stopped around 2003 when the Editor's 'dragon' told me on the phone that my letter was not 'understandable'. I got written proof from the Head of Department of English from three local High Schools that my writing was 'understandable' - she didn't publish so I stopped wriiting  


  > And what's wrong with plane, as long as it is spelt 'plane, being the shortened form of aeroplane, whereas
  > a craft is a water borne means of transport. I always use the word 'plane, never aircraft, next you'll be 
  > wanting me to spell Mum as Mom.


  You weren't serving in the RAF, where it was drilled into us that the RAF had aircraft and not planes - just as you would have been drilled that it wasn't the ceiling but the deck-head?

  Are you saying that the word aircraft is incorrect usage? An aircraft is a vehicle which is able to fly through the air (or the atmosphere of a planet). Objects which are not supported by the air, such as most rockets and missiles, are not aircraft. 


  And, Mike and I called our mother 'Mam' as did every other child in Colne, Lancs. :-)


  Might I suggest some light reading for you? 


  Try Julian Burnside's - "Word Watching" - from any Angus & Robertson or Dymocks. 


  Mike bought it for me before he left.




  ooroo


  If you don't hear the knock of opportunity - build a door.


  Anon.








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