[Proposal] aeroplane → airplane

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This is a proposal to retire the word aeroplane in favor of airplane.

British spelling from French aéroplane. An airplane flies in air, not aero.

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[willpets]

An airplane flies in air, not ‘aero.’ The Greek root was dropped in American English and nobody misses it.

Airplane is descriptive, phonetic, and shorter. Plane works too.

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