I’ve always thought that “airplane” is American English, and “aeroplane” is British English.
Love the films Airplane, by the way 
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Who gives a ffffflight.
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I always say Aeroplane.
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oh yes we have them in Australia too - I do love the mint aero bar.
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On the rare occasions I buy one that is my favourite too however I am a sucker for a Violet Crumble
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The only small chocolate bar I buy. 
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Everyone’s a Fruit and Nutcase!
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Plane or aircraft mostly but might say aeroplane sometimes. Never Airplane
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It’s aeroplane for me too, airplane just doesn’t seem right.
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It’s always airplane for me.
Aero…dynamics
Aerospace engineering
Aerobic
But keep the flights tight with an airplane.
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I used to use the French word, aeroplane, but nowadays I tend to say just “plane” .
I don’t think I’ve ever used the word “airplane”, though I don’t know why because Brits use “Airport” and “aircraft”
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I thought the choice was between errorplain and errplain. Must have got that wrong.
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Greek/Latin combination: “aereo” (adjective - something which moves in the air)
“plane” : piatto (noun - flat object).
We simply call it 'aereo".
The full word “aeroplano” (rarely used), from the original French version, like the British.
I love a little Grammar/Vocab analysis every now and then 
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Gosh!
Quite an educational post to accompany my very first coffee of the day Rose 
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Yes, perhaps because tomorrow I have some English language lessons to do with some children and teenagers.
My brain is getting prepared 
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Every time I see an Airbus A380 I say “that’s a big Fokker” 
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No July… 
It means Jane has ‘Flights of fancy’ occasionally…
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My brother always called them aeroplanes. He was an aeronautical engineer by trade and worked in an aeroplane company plus the RAF.
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Good for him, never heard of an Airnautical Engineer, this debate is sorted.
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It’s called an ‘Aeroplane’ because it’s a plane, and it’s aerodynamic…
However, how often do we use the term ‘Motor Carriage’ for ‘Car’…
The Americans do have a tendency to be lazy with the English Language though…
Center, thru, tire, Aluuuuuminum…among a host of others…
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