You say "Heli", I say "Helo". What gives?
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You say "Heli", I say "Helo". What gives?
OK, gang...newbie here. Riddle me this.
Who, in God's name, abbreviates the name of rotary-wing configurations as "Helis" versus "Helos" (pronounced "HEE'-LOWS") as He intended?
My ~30 years experience in military aircraft industry in the states is exclusive use of the latter vice the former. Are they used interchangably? Does it depend on which side of "the pond" you are from? USA versus everyone else? Military versus commercial? Northern versus southern hemisphere? Or what?
Please enlighten me if you would. Thanks.
Who, in God's name, abbreviates the name of rotary-wing configurations as "Helis" versus "Helos" (pronounced "HEE'-LOWS") as He intended?
My ~30 years experience in military aircraft industry in the states is exclusive use of the latter vice the former. Are they used interchangably? Does it depend on which side of "the pond" you are from? USA versus everyone else? Military versus commercial? Northern versus southern hemisphere? Or what?
Please enlighten me if you would. Thanks.
Helos---left side of pond.....Helis---right side of pond...
On another note...Got hammered in Pax River back in 88....Tri-nats ASW....would like to say I remember most of it---sadly though.....
On another note...Got hammered in Pax River back in 88....Tri-nats ASW....would like to say I remember most of it---sadly though.....
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Well, Mr. Don'tsaynice, guy....I've got to bring spelling back out. (did this to someone else recently)
Is it Helicopter or Helocopter?
There might be the answer for everyone!!
As if 2 sides of the pond will ever agree.
Is it Helicopter or Helocopter?
There might be the answer for everyone!!
As if 2 sides of the pond will ever agree.
Don't know what you are worried about yankydoodle, you have already bastardized the rest of a perfectly functional language 
Never mind, we know you gotta get some history from somewhere
Go figure......
Never mind, we know you gotta get some history from somewhere
Go figure......
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Get over yourself alreadys.....
It is all about perspective.....Me thinks a lot of the English language came from afar in the first place....Is not the root of the English language based upon a mix of Latin, French, Gaelic, Greek.....? One example---In Latin---"Agricolie"=Farmer....ergo Agriculture... (I am sure my spelling is not the best but oh well, point made)...should I continue???
People in the US are mostly immigrants from other countries----all of whom left their home because of all the "A$$holes" there no doubt....
Funny how you will all complain about your lot in life, how expensive the flying is over there in the great UK, yada yada f'kinkin yada...and all want to come to the US to fly...... Maybe the Americans took a perfectly good flying system and "LEFT IT ALONE", instead of "bastardizing" it into an elitist flying organization....hmmm hitting close to home maybe.....
I should prolly shut up before I bastardize your glorious language anymore and pi$$ you off and get banned......
Get over yourself alreadys.....
It is all about perspective.....Me thinks a lot of the English language came from afar in the first place....Is not the root of the English language based upon a mix of Latin, French, Gaelic, Greek.....? One example---In Latin---"Agricolie"=Farmer....ergo Agriculture... (I am sure my spelling is not the best but oh well, point made)...should I continue???
People in the US are mostly immigrants from other countries----all of whom left their home because of all the "A$$holes" there no doubt....
Funny how you will all complain about your lot in life, how expensive the flying is over there in the great UK, yada yada f'kinkin yada...and all want to come to the US to fly...... Maybe the Americans took a perfectly good flying system and "LEFT IT ALONE", instead of "bastardizing" it into an elitist flying organization....hmmm hitting close to home maybe.....
I should prolly shut up before I bastardize your glorious language anymore and pi$$ you off and get banned......
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Originally Posted by griffo
bastardized
Gordy, just try saying, "ha ha very funny".
Anyway, I'd always believed that "helo" was more a military term, particularly Naval and that "heli" was used in the civilian world by those who know know any better.
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English as spoken in the USA is much closer to the English language and spelling that the Pilgrim Fathers arrived with than the English spoken in Britain to-day, which has been 'Europeanised'.
At the risk of repeating myself, there was a very interesting Nat. Geog. programme all about it.
At the risk of repeating myself, there was a very interesting Nat. Geog. programme all about it.
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Mmmm ....
Gordy old darling ...
If you ever give up flying .... I think you could have an excellent vocation as a "Game Fish" .... you certainly took the 'baited hook' and ran with it .....
..... "Chill" bro
Take care ....
Gordy old darling ...
If you ever give up flying .... I think you could have an excellent vocation as a "Game Fish" .... you certainly took the 'baited hook' and ran with it .....
..... "Chill" bro
Take care ....
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So Mr. Webster didn't set out to deliberately change the spelling of American English, and thus take it further from British English?
...A language where a sheep becomes mutton, a cow becomes beef and a pig becomes pork? Where the Ruler is Regnant, Rex/Regina, Monarch, King/Queen and Majesty. Where I can put on my pyjamas and sleep in a bungalow.
English, to quote someone, doesn't so much acquire words from other languages as knock them out in an alley on a dark night and rifle through their pockets for spare grammar.
...A language where a sheep becomes mutton, a cow becomes beef and a pig becomes pork? Where the Ruler is Regnant, Rex/Regina, Monarch, King/Queen and Majesty. Where I can put on my pyjamas and sleep in a bungalow.
English, to quote someone, doesn't so much acquire words from other languages as knock them out in an alley on a dark night and rifle through their pockets for spare grammar.
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So Mr. Webster didn't set out to deliberately change the spelling of American English, and thus take it further from British English?
In Britain, Johnson put together a dictionary (in which he famously misspelled "dispatch" as "despatch") in the late 1700s ... in American, Webster put together a dictionary inthe early 1800s. Who's to say that their spellings were perfect? All the dictionary did was standardize the spelling and there is therefore, no right nor wrong.
The English speaking settlers who first arrived in American spoke English little different from Shakepearean English; Americans still use "gotten" whereas the British just say "got". But the British still say "forgotten" and "ill-gotten" and it's the same linguistic derivation.
However, I still think "helo" is a military expression.
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Whirls
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I guess huh...twas late in my neck of the woods at the time...Kept me amused for a minute or two though, so no harm done.. 
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Helos---left side of pond.....Helis---right side of pond...
By the way. Upper left refers to our Geographic location and not our political leanings.
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Funny, what really gets on my tits is people who can't use capital letters correctly.
The correct but slightly old-fashioned British English pronunciation of many words being with H, is that the H is dropped, as in 'otel. Again, all that has happened is that American English has retained some different pronunciations.
However, one finds that punctuation rules on both sides of the pond are the same.
Still think helo is a military word.
Cheers
Whirls
The correct but slightly old-fashioned British English pronunciation of many words being with H, is that the H is dropped, as in 'otel. Again, all that has happened is that American English has retained some different pronunciations.
However, one finds that punctuation rules on both sides of the pond are the same.
Still think helo is a military word.
Cheers
Whirls