[PRCo] Re: ÆROPORT

[John Swindler]

Aerodrome is the British spelling.

And to bring it back to railways, Aero chocolate is a favorite, available in 
most British rail stations.  Great way to snack while traveling about, 
riding twelve car m-u express trains that make all the right sounds.

JS


>From: Fred Schneider <fschnei at supernet.com>
>Reply-To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>To: pittsburgh-railways at dementia.org
>Subject: [PRCo] Re: ÆROPORT
>Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 09:06:00 -0400
>
>Suggest aerodrome might be British and airdrome American???  It is
>Microsoft and Netscape.  I never tried to toggle on the British spelling
>in order to see if it is different.
>
>Jim Holland wrote:
>
> > Good Morning!
> >
> > >> Fred Schneider wrote:
> >
> > >> Airdrome = Ardmore.  Damn spell check.
> >
> > > Donald Galt wrote:
> >
> > > Thought you were being clever.
> >
> > > What sort of spell-checker is that? "Aerodrome" is
> > > familiar enough, but I have never encountered "airdrome."
> >
> > > Don
> >
> >         According to  *Webster's__School__Dictionary*  (1980 by
> > Merriam and Company)  AIRDROME  is aka  AIRPORT.
> >
> >         Maybe  *aerodrome*  was originally  *ÆRODROME*  which is too
> > complicated for us moderns and it got watered down to
> > AIRDROME.
> >
> >         But I understand there is a new definition to  AIRDROME
> > which Oxford is considering for addition to the dictionary:
> > Transit for Air-Heads!
> >
> >         Stranger things have happened.
> >
> > As An Aside.......
> >
> >         .......In response to the forward about
> > Roller-Copaster-Transit posted on another list, someone
> > thought it might mean resurrecting the 87-Ardmore.   I  AM
> > certainly for that    ----    let's get started and vote One
> > (or Two if possible) Derrick Brashear's to Spear-Head
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> >
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> >
> > Waiting for a bus is about as thrilling as fishing,
> >         with the similar tantalisation that something,
> >                 sometime, somehow, will turn up.
> >                         George Courtauld
> >
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> >
> > James B. Holland
> >
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>
>xx
>

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