Re: [Aus-soaring] Microair servicing - Is it still a thing?

[Mike Borgelt]

At 10:59 PM 10/24/2016, you wrote:

If we’re going to get technical, I’ll point 
out that the Macquarie Dictionary advises that 
US and British spelling conventions are both fine for Australian English.

Then, if that doesn’t end the conversation, 
I’ll point out that I use American spellings 
all the time specifically to annoy people who claim to be pedants.

Also: The Americans invented it, if they want to 
call it an “airplane” instead of an 
“aeroplane,” that’s fine by me. If the 
Brits think they know better, maybe they should 
have thought about that when they were losing the War of Independence. :-)


  - mark




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Yup. In a masterful display of military prowess 
the Brits managed to get 60,000 of their troops 
trapped on a peninsula with the French Navy in 
control of the waters around it. Still beats me 
how they got enough people annoyed enough to start shooting at Redcoats.

As for airplane, that's what Wilbur and Orville called it.

Mike

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