On Friday, July 19, 2019 at 12:39:38 PM UTC+1, charles wrote:
In article ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 19/07/2019 11:15, Ian Jackson wrote:
In message , blatha
writes


"Gareth's was W7 now W10 Downstairs Computer"
wrote in message ...
What is the difference in meaning between parked and parked up?

Listen and listen up?

Active and proactive? (I knew about active and reactive)

Antennae and antennas?

Are these crass Americans taken up by the literacy-challenged
of this country?

Living languages change over time. That€˜s why even
you lot now talk about airports instead of airfields,

There's a difference. When flying was new, a port was where ships
sailed in and out of - and a place of entry and exit to/from the
country. Otherwise it was usually a 'harbour'. By analogy, an
'airport' is usually large and international - and an 'airfield'
isn't. However, a word rarely used in modern parlance is 'aerodrome'.


Indeed. Blatha is as usual long on bla short on facts.
Aerodrome means a runway or place for aircraft. It is sunonmous with
airfield.


In the days when people started flying an airfield was just that - a field
where planes took off and landed. I pass a still active one just off the
A303's eastern end. (Popham Airfield)




and even get
really depraved and use words like OK at times too.

It's better than 'alright' (as a single word). It's also international.

Don't get me going about people who now habitually start sentences with
"So" instead of "Well".

So and so said such and such
Until stopped by the bell.
He asked me what I thought of that...
"I just said : "Well, well, well!"

3 holes in the ground.




--

--
from KT24 in Surrey, England
"I'd rather die of exhaustion than die of boredom" Thomas Carlyle

I learnt to fly in an airfield, or grass strip as they are also known as. Very handy when there was a strong cross wind as one could just fly into the wind and across the usual landing strip