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Old 20th May 2003 | 07:27
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Keef

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My diddy Oxford dictionary goes into lots of chat, but basically implies (in this context) that a chart is maritime, and a map land-based. Which is what I always thought.

I suspect we call aviation ones "charts" because the first navigators were men of the sea.

But I'll follow the Humpty-Dumpty principle that a word means what I want it to. Very postmodern, I know.
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